Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food

豊: bountiful, excellent

Also: rich

JLPT N213 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met

豆 carries the meaning · 曲 is drawn in

13 strokes
  • Oracle bone · Shang
  • Today

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

Two readings, and the words that use each

ホウhou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 豊作ほうさくabundant harvest, bumper crop
  • 豊漁ほうりょうgood catch, good haul
  • 豊穣ほうじょうgood harvest, abundant crop
  • 豊富なほうふなabundant, rich
  • 豊潤なほうじゅんなrich, luxurious, abundant

ゆたかyutaka · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 豊かなゆたかなabundant, rich

Also read ブ, とよ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Small but powerful! This radical represents both the humble bean—a vital source of nutrition—and the sacred vessels used in solemn ritual offerings.”
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
豊 bountiful · 曲 + 豆
vs鼓 drum · 壴 + 支
豊 has 曲 + 豆 where 鼓 has 壴 + 支.
In ChineseSimplified 丰 · traditional 豐 · fēng

Three different forms: Japanese 豊, simplified 丰, traditional 豐.

Simplified
丰 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
豐 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin fēng most common reading

False friend. Chinese also has a character 豊 (lǐ), but it is a different word. The Chinese for this kanji is 丰 (simplified) or 豐 (traditional).

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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