漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home
宝: treasure, wealth
Also: valuables
JLPT N28 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
宀 carries the meaning · 玉 is drawn in
8 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Western Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
ホウhou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 宝庫ほうこtreasure house, treasury
- 宝石ほうせきgem, jewel
- 財宝ざいほうtreasure
- 国宝こくほうnational treasure
- 家宝かほうheirloom
たからtakara · kun'yomi · on its own
- 宝たからtreasure
- 宝くじたからくじlottery
- 宝物たからものtreasure, treasured item
- 宝探したからさがしtreasure hunt
- 宝島たからじまtreasure island
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Under one roof! Imagine the safety and warmth of a sturdy house at the end of a long day.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side宝 treasure · 宀
vs国 country · 囗In ChineseSimplified, as in Japanese · traditional 寶 · bǎo
Japan uses the same simplified form as mainland China, 宝. Taiwan and Hong Kong write 寶.
- Simplified
- 宝 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 寶 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin bǎo 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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