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忘

忘 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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Meaning (Japanese)

  1. わすれる。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「心」+音符「亡」。「わすれる」を意味する漢語｛忘｝を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

forget

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ボウJHS
Kun (native)
  • わす(れる)Elem.
Other languages
  • 拼音wang4
  • 拼音wang2
  • 한글mang
  • Hán-ViệtVong

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
7 strokes
Radical
心(こころ)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 2
Unicode
U+5FD8

Components

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

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱亡心

Words using this kanji

  • 忘年会ぼうねんかい年末に行われる宴会。一年の労をねぎらう。year-end party, "forget-the-year" party, bōnenkai
  • 忘れ物わすれものわすれもの 参照lost article, thing left behind, leaving something behind, forgetting something
  • 忘却ぼうきゃくすっかり忘れてしまうこと。lapse of memory, forgetting completely, (consigning to) oblivion
  • 忘れるわすれるわすれる 参照。to forget, to leave carelessly, to be forgetful of, to forget about
  • 忘れ去るわすれさるto forget completely, to leave behind
  • 忘るわするto lose something
  • 忘恩ぼうおんingratitude, thanklessness
  • 忘我ぼうが夢中になって自分をこと。trance, ecstasy, enthusiasm
  • 忘年ぼうねん年老いているのを忘れること。 年の差を気にしないこと。 その年一年間の苦労を忘れること。forgetting the hardships of the old year, forgetting one another's age difference
  • 忘失ぼうしつ忘れ、失うこと。 忘れ去ること。forgetting, losing
  • 忘れ草わすれぐさorange daylily (Hemerocallis fulva), tawny daylily, tobacco
  • 忘れ緒わすれおdecorative gauze strap that hangs from the front left side of the kohimo when tying closed one's hanpi
  • 忘れ霜わすれじもlate frost, frost in late spring
  • 忘れ扇わすれおうぎdiscarded fan (in autumn), forgotten fan
  • 忘れ花わすればなlate bloomer, flower blooming after its usual season (esp. in winter)
  • 忘れ鼻わすればなunobtrusive nose, unpeculiar nose
  • 忘れ形見わすれがたみmemento (from a dead person), souvenir, keepsake, orphan
  • 忘れがちわすれがちforgetful, oblivious of, negligent
  • 忘れな草わすれなぐさforget-me-not (esp. the water forget-me-not, Myosotis scorpioides)
  • 忘れん坊わすれんぼうforgetful person

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

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Lookup codes

SKIP
2-2-5
Four Corner
0033.1
Spahn–Hadamitzky
2j5.4
Heisig
640
Nelson
291