Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
rod, stick, cane, pole, club, line
On:
ボウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
1455 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 棒 【ボウ】 pole, rod, stick, baton, line, dash, spoken monotonously
  • 棒状 【ボウジョウ】 cylinder or rod-shaped
  • 用心棒 【ヨウジンボウ】 bodyguard, bouncer, (security) guard, bar (on a door), bolt, stick or pole used for self-defence
  • 指揮棒 【シキボウ】 conductor's stick, conductor's baton

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bang4
Korean:
bong, bang

Spanish

  • barra
  • vara
  • bastón
  • palo
  • sin variación
  • invariable

Portuguese

  • vara
  • pau
  • poste
  • bastão
  • ramo

French

  • bâton
  • baguette
  • canne
  • barre
  • perche
  • massue
  • ligne
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975 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1424 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2302 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1121 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
636 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1623 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1543 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1645 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
988 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1105 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1237 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
671 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
894 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1589 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14929 Morohashi
983 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2750 New Nelson (John Haig)
1575 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1697 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
956 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1855 2001 Kanji
4a8.20 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-8 SKIP code
4595.3 Four corner code
1-43-32 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
68d2 Unicode hex code