夲 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Origin of the character

会意。「大」+「十」。本来は「夲」や「𛃀」は「本」の行書体であるが、「本」の別字として扱われることが多い。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

advance quickly, to go back and forth, origin, source

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ホン
Kun (native)
  • もと
Other languages
  • 拼音ben3
  • 한글do
  • 한글bon
  • Hán-ViệtBổn

Basics

Strokes
5 strokes
Radical
女(おんな)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+5932

Components

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

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱大十

Lookup codes

SKIP
2-3-2
Four Corner
4040.3
Spahn–Hadamitzky
0a5.25