Jisho

×

8 strokes
Radical:
moon, month
Parts:
companion, friend
Kun:
とも
On:
ホウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2039 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 朋友 【ホウユウ】 friend, companion
  • 朋党 【ホウトウ】 faction, clique
  • 同朋 【ドウボウ】 companions, fellows
  • 友朋 【ユウホウ】 friend

Kun reading compounds

  • 友 【とも】 friend, companion, comrade, pal, accompaniment, companion (e.g. book), complement, accessory

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
peng2
Korean:
bung

Spanish

  • compañero
  • amigo

Portuguese

French

  • compagnon
  • ami
1860 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3737 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1982 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
616 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2100 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1092 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
593 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
784 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
19 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14340P Morohashi
880 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4769 New Nelson (John Haig)
19 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
19 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3946 2001 Kanji
4b4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-4 SKIP code
7722.0 Four corner code
1-42-94 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
670b Unicode hex code