Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
Variants:
show symptoms of, sprout, bud, malt
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2346 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 萌芽 【ホウガ】 germination, germ, sprout, early sign, beginning, starting to appear
  • 萌芽更新 【ホウガコウシン】 coppicing, coppice regeneration

Kun reading compounds

  • 萌える 【もえる】 to burst into bud, to sprout, to have a crush, to be infatuated
  • 兆す 【きざす】 to show signs, to have symptoms, to give indications (of), to bud, to germinate, to sprout
  • 兆し 【きざし】 sign, indication, omen, symptom

Readings

Japanese names:
もえ、 きざし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
meng2
Korean:
maeng

Spanish

  • brote
  • capullo
  • malta
  • mostrar síntomas de

Portuguese

French

3979 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2221 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2871 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1481 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1995 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
31265X Morohashi
2301 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5094 New Nelson (John Haig)
2377 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2460 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k8.11 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-8 SKIP code
4462.7 Four corner code
1-43-08 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
840c Unicode hex code