Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

倣: emulate, imitate

JLPT N110 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · 放 gives the sound

10 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

ホウhou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 模倣もほうimitation; copying
  • 模倣者もほうしゃimitator

ならうnarau · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 倣うならうto imitate; to follow; to copy

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

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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
In ChineseSimplified 仿 · traditional, as in Japanese · fǎng

Japan keeps the traditional form 倣; mainland China simplifies it to 仿.

Simplified
仿 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
倣 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin fǎng 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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