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

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 貶下 【ヘンゲ】 scorn, disdain, contempt
  • 褒貶 【ホウヘン】 praise and censure, criticism
  • 毀誉褒貶 【キヨホウヘン】 praise and censure, public criticisms

Kun reading compounds

  • 貶す 【けなす】 to speak ill of, to disparage
  • 貶める 【おとしめる】 to show contempt for, to look down upon, to have a low opinion of, to cause to fall, to make decline

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bian3
Korean:
pyeom

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4489 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
36707 Morohashi
5771 New Nelson (John Haig)
3970 2001 Kanji
7b3.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-4 SKIP code
6283.7 Four corner code
1-76-42 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8cb6 Unicode hex code