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On reading compounds

  • 梵 【ボン】 Brahman (ultimate reality of the universe in Hinduism), Brahma, Brahma (Hindu creator god), Sanskrit
  • 梵学 【ボンガク】 study of Sanskrit, study of Buddhism
  • 薄伽梵 【バガボン】 Bhagavan, Bhagwan, Lord

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fan4
Korean:
beom

Spanish

Portuguese

French

140 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1490 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
14888X Morohashi
2701 New Nelson (John Haig)
2954 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2961 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4a7.27 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-3 SKIP code
4421.7 Four corner code
1-59-80 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
68b5 Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:
song, ballad
Kun:
うたうた.う
On:
バイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2051 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 貝葉 【バイヨウ】 palm-leaf manuscript
  • 梵唄 【ボンバイ】 song praising the virtues of the Buddha, chanting of Buddhist hymns

Kun reading compounds

  • 歌 【うた】 song, singing, classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka), modern poetry
  • 歌う 【うたう】 to sing, to sing of (love, beauty, etc.) in a poem, to express in the form of a poem, to recite (a poem)
  • 長唄 【ながうた】 long epic song with shamisen accompaniment (developed in Edo in the early 17th century)
  • 紡ぎ歌 【つむぎうた】 spinning song
  • 歌う 【うたう】 to sing, to sing of (love, beauty, etc.) in a poem, to express in the form of a poem, to recite (a poem)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bai4, bei5
Korean:
pae

Spanish

  • canción
  • balada (acompañada de shamisen)

Portuguese

French

924 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1045 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2039 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
396 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
477 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
297 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
358 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
3694 Morohashi
400 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
802 New Nelson (John Haig)
2178 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
57 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3d7.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-7 SKIP code
6608.0 Four corner code
1-17-20 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5504 Unicode hex code