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漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food

篤: fervent, kind

Also: cordial, serious, deliberate

JLPT N116 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

馬 carries the meaning · 竹 carries meaning and sound

16 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

トクtoku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 危篤きとく
  • 重篤じゅうとくcritical (condition); serious
  • 篤志家とくしかcharitable person; philanthropist; volunteer

Also read あつい, 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

“Flexible and strong! Imagine a thicket of green bamboo swaying in the wind, bending but never breaking.”
More in the 竹 bamboo story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
竹

Also built on bamboo (竹)

All 24

The 竹 family reads チク (chiku); 篤 is read トク.

馬

Also built on horse (馬)

All 11

Also read トク

8 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
篤 fervent · 竹
vs罵 abuse · 罒
篤 has 竹 where 罵 has 罒.
In ChineseSimplified 笃 · traditional, as in Japanese · dǔ

Japan keeps the traditional form 篤; mainland China simplifies it to 笃.

Simplified
笃 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
篤 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin dǔ 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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