僕 — me, i, servant

ぼく僕 me

ぼく

U+50D5 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1236 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1933 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

me
i
servant
manservant

Readings

On'yomi: ぼく boku
Kun'yomi: しもべ shimobe

word

ぼく boku On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

僕(ぼく) boku I (male) 僕(ぼく) ら bokura we (masculine casual) 僕(ぼく) たち bokutachi we

Words by frequency and grade

3 words

Each dot is a word containing 僕: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

亻 person (left form)

菐 dense brush

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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