Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

伯: chief, count

Also: earl, uncle, Brazil

JLPT N17 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · 白 gives the sound

7 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ハクhaku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 伯爵はくしゃくcount; earl
  • 伯はくcount; earl
  • 画伯がはくmaster painter; great artist
  • 伯仲はくちゅうbeing evenly matched; being equal with

Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.

  • 伯父おじuncle
  • 伯母おばaunt

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
More in the 亻 person story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
亻

Also built on person (亻)

All 103
白

Also built on white (白)

All 14

伯 takes the 白 family's reading, ハク (haku).

Also read ハク

9 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
伯 chief · 白
vs伸 expand · 申
伯 has 白 where 伸 has 申.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · bó

Same form: 伯 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
伯 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
伯 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin bó most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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