Jisho

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15 strokes
Radical:
clothes 衣 (衤)
Parts:
Variants:
praise, extol
Kun:
ほ.める
On:
ホウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2073 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 報奨金 【ホウショウキン】 cash bonus, reward, bounty
  • 褒美 【ホウビ】 reward, prize
  • 過褒 【カホウ】 excessive praise, overpraise

Kun reading compounds

  • 褒める 【ほめる】 to praise, to commend, to compliment, to speak well of, to speak highly of

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bao1
Korean:
po

Spanish

  • alabanza
  • elogio
  • alabar
  • elogiar

Portuguese

  • elogio
  • enaltecer

French

  • éloge
  • louer
1803 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1883 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
331 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1732 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2556 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
803 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
818 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1936 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1629 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2662 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1356 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1841 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1007 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
34437 Morohashi
2144 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5483 New Nelson (John Haig)
998 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1073 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1797 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
465 2001 Kanji
2j13.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-13 SKIP code
0073.2 Four corner code
1-43-11 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8912 Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
sheep 羊 (⺶)
Parts:
beauty, beautiful
Kun:
うつく.しい
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
462 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 美 【ビ】 beauty
  • 美意識 【ビイシキ】 sense of beauty, aesthetic sense
  • 華美 【カビ】 splendor, splendour, gorgeousness, pomp, magnificence, showiness, gaudiness, extravagance, luxury
  • 造形美 【ゾウケイビ】 beauty of form (oft. used of nature), beauty of a sculpted shape
  • 御 【ミ】 august, beautiful
  • 見事 【ミゴト】 splendid, magnificent, excellent, fine, superb, beautiful, admirable, utter (esp. defeat), total, complete, something worth seeing, sight, spectacle
  • 水野亜美 【ミズノアミ】 Ami Mizuno (Sailor Moon character)
  • 伊邪那美 【イザナミ】 Izanami (Shinto goddess)

Kun reading compounds

  • 美しい 【うつくしい】 beautiful, pretty, lovely, sweet, pure (heart, friendship, etc.)

Readings

Japanese names:
はる、 よし、 よしみ、 り
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mei3
Korean:
mi

Spanish

  • belleza
  • bello

Portuguese

  • beleza
  • bela

French

  • beauté
  • beau, belle
308 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
398 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
376 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
289 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3658 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
268 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
833 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
923 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.19 Japanese for Busy People
401 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
405 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
673 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1566 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2817 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1451 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1955 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
554 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
28435 Morohashi
2264 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4660 New Nelson (John Haig)
548 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
587 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
339 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
343 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
963 2001 Kanji
2o7.4 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-6 SKIP code
4-9-4 SKIP code
2-6-3 SKIP code
8043.1 Four corner code
1-40-94 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7f8e Unicode hex code