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邦: home country, country

Also: Japan

JLPT N17 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

⻏ carries the meaning · 丰 gives the sound

7 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

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

One reading, and the words that use it

ホウhou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 連邦れんぽうfederation (of states); confederation
  • 邦人ほうじんJapanese national (esp. abroad)
  • 邦楽ほうがくJapanese music (esp. traditional Japanese…
  • 東邦とうほうOriental country; the Orient
  • 邦画ほうがJapanese film
  • 邦訳ほうやくtranslation into Japanese

Also read くに, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Welcome to the village! This "big town" radical brings the feeling of community, borders, and organized civilization to a kanji.”
More in the ⻏ village story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
丰

Also built on 丰

邦 takes the 丰 family's reading, ホウ (hou).

⻏

Also built on village (⻏)

All 13

Also read ホウ

33 kanji share this on'yomiAll 33

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
邦 home country · ⻏
vs拝 worship · 扌 + 一
邦 has ⻏ where 拝 has 扌 + 一.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · bāng

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

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

Pinyin bāng 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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