沸 — seethe, boil, ferment

わく沸 seethe

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes

U+6CB8 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1709 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1325 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

seethe
boil
ferment
uproar
breed

word

わ wa Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

沸(わ) く waku to boil

ふっ fu Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

沸(ふっ) 騰(とう) futtou boiling

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

氵 water (left form)

弗 not

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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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