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幇

幇 — readings, stroke count and radical

  • Non-Jōyō kanji
  • 12 strokes

Stroke order

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. たすける。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「巾」+音符「封」。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

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English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ホウ
Kun (native)
  • たす(ける)
Other languages
  • 拼音bang1
  • 한글bang
  • Hán-ViệtBang
  • Hán-ViệtBình

Basics

Strokes
12 strokes
Radical
干(かん)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+5E47

Components

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

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱封巾

Words using this kanji

  • 幇助ほうじょ犯罪などを容易にできるようにするなどの手助けを行うこと。assistance, backing, support, aiding and abetting (a crime)
  • 幇間ほうかん宴席で遊興などをたすける男芸者。太鼓持ち。professional jester, professional entertainer, comedian, buffoon
  • 幇助罪ほうじょざい(crime of) aiding and abetting

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(9 results)

Similar-looking kanji

Selected automatically by comparing composition (IDS). “Same composition” means the parts and their arrangement match.

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
2-9-3
Four Corner
4422.7
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3f9.5
Nelson
1482