Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

俸: stipend, salary

JLPT N110 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · 奉 gives the sound

10 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ホウhou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 年俸ねんぽうannual salary
  • 減俸げんぽうsalary reduction; salary cut
  • 俸給ほうきゅうsalary (esp. public employees); wages; pay

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

成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“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.”
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
俸 stipend · 亻
vs棒 rod · 木
俸 has 亻 where 棒 has 木.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · fèng

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

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

Pinyin fèng 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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