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簿: register, record book

JLPT N119 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

竹 carries the meaning · 溥 gives the sound

19 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

ボbo · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 名簿めいぼregister of names; list of names; roll
  • 帳簿ちょうぼ
  • 家計簿かけいぼhousehold account book
  • 簿外ぼがいunaccounted; off the books
  • 簿記ぼきbookkeeping
  • 原簿げんぼledger; original record; register

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

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)

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溥

Also built on 溥

The 溥 family reads ハク (haku); 簿 is read ボ.

Also read ボ

7 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · bù

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

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

Pinyin bù 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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