Jisho

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Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • ほうれん草 【ホウレンソウ】 spinach (Spinacia oleracea)

Kun reading compounds

  • ほうれん草 【ほうれんそう】 spinach (Spinacia oleracea)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bo1
Korean:
pa

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3968 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
31190X Morohashi
5081 New Nelson (John Haig)
3k8.13 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-8 SKIP code
2-4-8 SKIP code
4414.7 Four corner code
1-72-42 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
83e0 Unicode hex code

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 蘿蔔 【スズシロ】 daikon (variety of large white Oriental radish, Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus)
  • 松蘿 【ショウラ】 old man's beard (any lichen of genus Usnea), pine tree vines, deep entanglement
  • 蔦蔓 【ツタカズラ】 ivy and vines, creepers

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
luo2
Korean:
ra

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4104 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
32590X Morohashi
5263 New Nelson (John Haig)
3k19.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-19 SKIP code
2-4-19 SKIP code
4491.4 Four corner code
1-73-39 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
863f Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
wrap, embrace
Parts:
wrap, pack up, cover, conceal
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
954 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 包 【ホウ】 counter for packaged goods (esp. powdered medicine)
  • 包囲 【ホウイ】 siege, encirclement, envelopment, surrounding, besiegement
  • 内包 【ナイホウ】 connotation, comprehension, intension, inclusion, containment within
  • 閉包 【ヘイホウ】 closure

Kun reading compounds

  • 包む 【つつむ】 to wrap up, to pack, to bundle, to do up, to cover, to envelop, to shroud, to engulf, to conceal (a feeling), to hide, to give (money in an envelope; as a wedding gift, funeral offering, etc.)
  • 包む 【くるむ】 to wrap up (in), to roll up (in), to tuck (up)

Readings

Japanese names:
お、 かね
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bao1
Korean:
po

Spanish

  • envolver
  • empaquetar
  • cubrir

Portuguese

  • movimentar
  • embrulhar
  • capa
  • esconde

French

  • emballer
  • envelopper
  • recouvrir
  • cacher
511 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
611 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
583 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1112 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
176 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
369 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
377 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
218 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
804 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
819 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1013 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
230 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3684 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1880 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2560 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
536 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2506P Morohashi
2966 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
572 New Nelson (John Haig)
530 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
569 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
456 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2556 2001 Kanji
0a5.9 The Kanji Dictionary
3-2-3 SKIP code
4-5-2 SKIP code
2771.2 Four corner code
1-42-81 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5305 Unicode hex code