Jisho

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16 strokes
Radical:
meat 肉 (⺼)
Parts:
swell, get fat, thick
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1293 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 膨張 【ボウチョウ】 expansion, swelling, increase, growth
  • 膨大 【ボウダイ】 huge, vast, enormous, colossal, extensive, large, swelling, expansion
  • 海膨 【カイボウ】 rise

Kun reading compounds

  • 膨らむ 【ふくらむ】 to expand, to swell (out), to get big, to become inflated
  • 膨れる 【ふくれる】 to swell (out), to expand, to be inflated, to distend, to bulge, to get cross, to get sulky, to pout

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
peng2
Korean:
paeng

Spanish

  • hinchado
  • inflado
  • hincharse
  • inflarse
  • hinchar
  • inflar

Portuguese

  • inchar
  • engordar
  • espesso

French

  • gonfler
  • grossir
  • épais
1817 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1589 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3818 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1362 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1682 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1145 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1198 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1354 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1043 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1380 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
741 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
999 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1735 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
29861 Morohashi
1084 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4874 New Nelson (John Haig)
1719 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1855 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1835 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3960 2001 Kanji
4b12.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-12 SKIP code
7222.2 Four corner code
1-43-36 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
81a8 Unicode hex code