漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food
補: supplement, supply
Also: make good, offset, compensate, assistant, learner
JLPT N212 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
衤 carries the meaning · 甫 gives the sound
12 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
ホho · on'yomi · in compounds
- 補欠ほけつsubstitute, filling a vacancy
- 候補者こうほしゃcandidate, applicant
- 補佐するほさするaid, help, assist, advise
- 補助するほじょするhelp, assist, support, aid
- 補導するほどうするguide, direct, protect
- 補足するほそくするsupplement, complement
- 補償するほしょうするcompensate
- 補充するほじゅうするsupplement, replenish, fill up
- 補給するほきゅうするsupply, replenish
- 補正するほせいするrevise, correct
- 補習するほしゅうするgive supplementary lessons
おぎなうoginau · kun'yomi · on its own
- 補うおぎなうfill up (a vacancy), make up
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Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)衣 clothes, as 衤 (meaning) + 甫 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 補 (rev. 93481618), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Clothes (衤) + big/begin (甫). To "repair" and "supplement" a piece of "clothing" that has been damaged—representing any act of assistance or fixing.”
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Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 补 · traditional, as in Japanese · bǔ
Japan keeps the traditional form 補; mainland China simplifies it to 补.
- Simplified
- 补 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 補 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin bǔ 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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