Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

舗: shop, store

Also: pave

JLPT N115 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

人 and 吉 carry the meaning · 甫 gives the sound

15 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ホho · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 店舗てんぽshop; store; establishment
  • 舗装ほそうpaving (a road)
  • 舗ほshop; store
  • 本舗ほんぽhead office; main shop

Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.

  • 老舗しにせlong-established shop; shop of long standing

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

成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
舗 shop · 人 + 吉
vs輔 help · 車
舗 has 人 + 吉 where 輔 has 車.
In ChineseNo clear Chinese counterpart · pù

Unihan gives no clear Chinese counterpart for this character.

Pinyin pù 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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