Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

撲: slap, strike

Also: hit, beat, tell, speak

JLPT N115 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

扌 carries the meaning · 菐 gives the sound

15 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ボクboku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 打撲だぼくblow; hit (on the body); beating
  • 撲滅ぼくめつeradication; extermination; destruction

Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.

  • 相撲すもうsumo (wrestling)
  • 大相撲おおずもうprofessional sumo wrestling
  • 四つ相撲よつずもうwrestling in which both wrestlers grasp…
  • 一人相撲ひとりずもうfighting windmills; tilting at windmills

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

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Imagine a hand reaching out from the left to grab, hold, or shape the world! When you see these three strokes, think of a hand in motion.”
More in the 扌 hand story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
扌

Also built on hand (扌)

All 88
菐

Also built on 菐

撲 takes the 菐 family's reading, ボク (boku).

Also read ボク

8 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
撲 slap · 扌
vs僕 me · 亻
撲 has 扌 where 僕 has 亻.
In ChineseSimplified 扑 · traditional, as in Japanese · pū

Japan keeps the traditional form 撲; mainland China simplifies it to 扑.

Simplified
扑 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
撲 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin pū 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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