漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
勃: suddenness, rise
N1 (our estimate)9 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 孛(form)
- 力power(meaning)
力 carries the meaning · 孛 is drawn in
9 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
ボツbotsu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 勃発ぼっぱつoutbreak (e.g. of war); outburst
- 勃ぼつBulgaria
- 勃興ぼっこうsudden rise to power
Also read ホツ, おこる, にわかに, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Flex your arm and feel the power! That's 力, representing the raw muscle and effort required to change the world.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read ボツ
1 kanji shares this on'yomiAlso read ホツ
2 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · bó
Same form: 勃 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 勃 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 勃 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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