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漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

覇: hegemony, supremacy

Also: leadership, champion

JLPT N119 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

覀 carries the meaning · 䩗 is drawn in

19 strokes
  • Oracle bone · Shang
  • Today

Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

ハha · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 連覇れんぱsuccessive championships
  • 制覇せいはconquest; domination; supremacy
  • 覇権はけんhegemony
  • 覇者はしゃsupreme ruler; conqueror
  • 覇気はきspirit; drive; vigour

Also read ハク, はたがしら, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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“Spread the canopy! This radical represents a protective layer or a lid that wraps over the top of a character.”
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繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
覀

Also built on cover (覀)

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Also read ハ

5 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read ハク

9 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseA Japanese form · Chinese writes 霸 · bà

覇 is a Japanese simplification. Chinese writes 霸 in both simplified and traditional script.

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

Pinyin bà 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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