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漢字Kanji

矛: halberd, arms

Also: festival float

JLPT N15 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

予 and 丿 are drawn in

5 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

ムmu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 矛盾むじゅんcontradiction; inconsistency

ほこhoko · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 矛先ほこさきpoint of a spear; spearhead
  • 矛ほこlong-handled Chinese spear; lance; pike

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

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Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
予

Also built on beforehand (予)

丿

Also built on diagonal sweeping stroke (丿)

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矛 gives its sound to

The family reading is ム (mu). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read ム

8 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read ボウ

31 kanji share this on'yomiAll 31

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
矛 halberd · 丿
vs序 preface · 广
矛 has 丿 where 序 has 广.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · máo

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

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

Pinyin máo 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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