Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
mound, dam (阝 left) 阜 (阝)
Parts:
ward off, defend, protect, resist
Kun:
ふせ.ぐ
On:
ボウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
331 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 防衛施設庁 【ボウエイシセツチョウ】 (Japanese) Defense Facilities Administration Agency (Defence)
  • 防衛 【ボウエイ】 defense, defence, protection
  • 砂防 【サボウ】 erosion control
  • 攻防 【コウボウ】 offense and defense, offence and defence

Kun reading compounds

  • 防ぐ 【ふせぐ】 to defend against, to protect against, to prevent, to avert, to avoid

Readings

Japanese names:
あた、 う、 ほう
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fang2
Korean:
bang

Spanish

  • defender
  • proteger
  • aguantar
  • prevenir
  • presa
  • banco

Portuguese

  • desligar
  • defender
  • proteger
  • resistir

French

  • prévenir (un danger)
  • défendre
  • protéger
  • résister
718 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
812 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
791 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
325 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4980 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
680 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
983 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
374 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
513 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
522 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
781 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
725 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
320 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
203 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
242 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1311 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
41576 Morohashi
270 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6429 New Nelson (John Haig)
1302 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1399 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
326 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
674 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3645 2001 Kanji
2d4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-4 SKIP code
1-2-4 SKIP code
7022.7 Four corner code
1-43-41 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9632 Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
immersed, soak, dip, steep, moisten, wet, dunk
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1447 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 浸透 【シントウ】 permeation (of thought, ideology, culture, etc.), infiltration (e.g. of ideas), spread, penetration (e.g. into a market), pervasion, permeation (of a liquid, etc.), soaking, percolation, osmosis
  • 浸水 【シンスイ】 inundation, submersion, flood
  • 防浸 【ボウシン】 watertight, waterproof
  • 液浸 【エキシン】 immersion, dipping, in microscopy, immersing both the objective lens and the specimen in a liquid to increase the numerical aperture, in photolithography, filling the air gap between the final lens and the wafer surface with a liquid to increase the resolution

Kun reading compounds

  • 浸す 【ひたす】 to soak, to dip, to steep, to immerse, to moisten, to wet
  • 浸る 【ひたる】 to be soaked in, to be flooded, to be submerged, to be immersed in (joy, memories, alcohol, etc.), to give oneself over to, to bask in
  • 浸かる 【つかる】 to be submerged, to be soaked, to be pickled, to be well seasoned, to be totally immersed (in a condition, e.g. laziness)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jin4, jin1
Korean:
chim

Spanish

  • empapar
  • remojar
  • humedecer

Portuguese

  • imergir
  • ensopar
  • mergulhar
  • empapar
  • umedecer
  • molhar
  • embeber

French

  • immersion
  • tremper
  • plonger dans
  • humidifier
  • humecter
  • mouiller
1438 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1623 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2572 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1221 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1476 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1078 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1126 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1496 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1195 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
530 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
326 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
401 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1157 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17505P Morohashi
442 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3157 New Nelson (John Haig)
1149 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1232 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1357 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
367 2001 Kanji
3a7.17 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-7 SKIP code
3714.7 Four corner code
1-31-27 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6d78 Unicode hex code