漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
暴: outburst, rave
Also: fret, force, violence, cruelty, outrage
JLPT N215 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
- 日sun(meaning)
- 㳟(form)
日 carries the meaning · 㳟 is drawn in
15 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Four readings, and the words that use each
ボウbou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 暴力ぼうりょくviolence, mayhem
- 暴君ぼうくんtyrant, despot
- 暴風雨ぼうふううstorm
- 暴力団ぼうりょくだんorganized crime gang
- 乱暴ならんぼうなrude, violent, rough, lawless
- 横暴なおうぼうなviolent, oppressive, high-handed
- 暴走するぼうそうするrun wildly
- 暴行するぼうこうするrape, attack, behave violently
バクbaku · on'yomi
- 暴露するばくろするdisclose, expose
あばくabaku · kun'yomi · on its own
- 暴くあばくdisclose, divulge, expose
あばれるabareru · kun'yomi
- 暴れるあばれるact violently, trage,struggle
Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.
- 暴食暴飲ぼういんぼうしょくexcessive drinking and eating
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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.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · bào
Same form: 暴 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 暴 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 暴 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin bào 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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