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漢字Kanji · in States & Attributes

奉: observance, offer

Also: present, dedicate

JLPT N18 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

𡗗 and 丨 are drawn in

8 strokes
  • Bronze · Western Zhou
  • Today

Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

ホウhou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 奉仕ほうしservice; ministry; attendance
  • 奉公ほうこうlive-in domestic service
  • 信奉しんぽうbelief; faith; adherence
  • 奉納ほうのうdedication; offering; presentation

ブbu · on'yomi

  • 奉行ぶぎょうmagistrate; shogunate administrator
  • 町奉行まちぶぎょう(Edo-period) town magistrate

Also read たてまつる, まつる, ほうずる, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Learn it 4 steps
Print sheet Present
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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Stretch out wide! This radical represents anything that is grand, important, or massive in scale.”
More in the 大 large story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
𡗗

Also built on 𡗗

丨

Also built on vertical stroke (丨)

All 17

奉 gives its sound to

The family reading is ホウ (hou). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read ホウ

33 kanji share this on'yomiAll 33

Also read ブ

13 kanji share this on'yomiAll 13

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
奉 observance · 丨
vs実 reality · 宀
奉 has 丨 where 実 has 宀.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · fèng

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

Simplified
奉 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
奉 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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