Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food

幅: hanging scroll, width

JLPT N212 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

巾 carries the meaning · 畐 gives the sound

12 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

フクfuku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 全幅ぜんぷくoverall width, all, every
  • 振幅数しんぷくすうamplitude, swing of pendulum
  • 増幅するぞうふくするamplify

はばhaba · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 幅はばwidth, breadth
  • 幅跳びはばとびlong jump
  • 横幅よこはばbreadth, width
  • 大幅におおはばにin large scale, drastically

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)巾 clothing (meaning) + 畐 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 幅 (rev. 93448019), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Cloth (巾) + full/abundance (畐). Originally referred to the "full width" of a piece of woven cloth as it came off the loom—representing any physical "range."”
From the 巾 cloth story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
巾

Also built on cloth (巾)

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畐

Also built on 畐

幅 takes the 畐 family's reading, フク (fuku).

Also read フク

9 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
幅 hanging scroll · 巾
vs富 wealth · 宀
幅 has 巾 where 富 has 宀.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · fú

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

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

Pinyin fú 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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