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麸

麸 — readings, stroke count and radical

  • Non-Jōyō kanji
  • 11 strokes

Stroke order

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Meaning

light wheat-gluten bread

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. ふすま。小麦粉を作る際に出る皮の屑。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「麥」+音符「夫」。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • フ
Kun (native)
  • ふすま
Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese readings
  • 拼音fu1
  • 한글bu
  • Hán-ViệtPhu

Basics

Strokes
11 strokes
Radical
麥(むぎ)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+9EB8

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰麦夫

Words using 麩

Words using this character are recorded under its variant form 麩.

  • 麩ふwheat gluten (usu. steamed or baked)小麦粉から取り出したグルテンで作る食品。
  • 麩質ふしつgluten
  • 麩菓子ふがしcandy made from wheat gluten, wheat-gluten snack麩（焼き麩）に黒砂糖などを絡めて乾燥させた菓子。

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Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
3-7-4
Four Corner
5524.3
Spahn–Hadamitzky
4i12.2