補 — supplement, supply, make good

ほ補 supplement

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 12 strokes

U+88DC Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #332 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1983 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

supplement
supply
make good
offset
compensate
assistant
learner

word

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

補(ほ) ho supplement 補(ほ) 助(じょ) hojo assistance 候(こう) 補(ほ) kouho candidate 補(ほ) 足(そく) hosoku supplement 補(ほ) 正(せい) hosei correction 補(ほ) 給(きゅう) hokyuu supply 補(ほ) 完(かん) hokan completion 補(ほ) 強(きょう) hokyou reinforcement

おぎな ogina 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).

補(おぎな) う oginau to supplement

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

衤 clothing (left form)

甫 begin

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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.

#145 衣 clothes