Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

朴: crude, simple

Also: plain, docile

JLPT N16 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

木 carries the meaning · 卜 gives the sound

6 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

ボクboku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 素朴そぼくsimple; artless; naive
  • 純朴じゅんぼくsimple and honest; unsophisticated

ほおhoo · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 朴ほおJapanese bigleaf magnolia (Magnolia obovata)

Also read ほう, えのき, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Stand before a great, ancient tree and see 木! The vertical line is the sturdy trunk, the top strokes are branches reaching for the sunlight, and the bottom strokes are the roots gripping the earth.”
More in the 木 tree story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
木

Also built on tree (木)

All 124
卜

Also built on to strike (卜)

All 9

朴 takes the 卜 family's reading, ボク (boku).

Also read ボク

8 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
朴 crude · 卜
vs札 tag · 乙
朴 has 卜 where 札 has 乙.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · pǔ

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

Simplified
朴 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
朴 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.

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