吼 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning

bark, bay, howl, bellow, roar, cry

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • コウ
Kun (native)
  • ほ(える)
Other languages
  • 拼音hou3
  • 한글hu
  • Hán-ViệtHống

Basics

Strokes
7 strokes
Radical
口(くち)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+543C

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰口孔

Words using this kanji

  • 吼くうたくto roar, to howl

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(2 results)

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-3-4
Four Corner
6201.0
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3d3.6
Nelson
893