Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

普: universal, wide(ly)

Also: generally, Prussia

JLPT N212 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

日 carries the meaning · 並 is drawn in

12 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

フfu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 普通ふつうordinarily
  • 普段ふだんusually
  • 普遍的なふへんてきなuniversal
  • 普及するふきゅうするspread
  • 普及ふきゅうdiffusion; spread; popularization
  • 普賢ふげんSamantabhadra (bodhisattva)
  • 普遍ふへんuniversal; general; ubiquitous
  • 普遍的ふへんてき

Also read あまねく, あまねし, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Learn it 4 steps
Print sheet Present
成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“The life-giving sun in the sky! This simple box was once a perfect circle, representing the regular rising and setting of the sun that marks the rhythm of our lives.”
More in the 日 sun story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
日

Also built on sun (日)

All 70

普 gives its sound to

The family reading is フ (fu). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read フ

28 kanji share this on'yomiAll 28

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
普 universal · 並
vs湿 damp · 氵 + 业
普 has 並 where 湿 has 氵 + 业.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · pǔ

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

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

Pinyin pǔ most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

One click tells us. No sign-up.