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漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

阜: hill, mound

Also: left village radical (no. 170)

N1 (our estimate)8 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met

𠂤 and 十 are drawn in

8 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

フfu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 岐阜ぎふGifu (city, prefecture)
  • 陰阜いんぷmons veneris; mons pubis

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

  • 阜偏こざとへんkanji "mound" or "small village" radical…

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

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成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Climb high! This radical represents the natural landscape of mounds, hills, and the protective physical barriers they provide for human settlements.”
More in the 阝 hill story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
𠂤

Also built on 𠂤

十

Also built on ten (十)

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Also read フ

28 kanji share this on'yomiAll 28

Also read フウ

7 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
阜 hill · 十
vs追 chase · ⻌
阜 has 十 where 追 has ⻌.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · fù

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

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

Pinyin fù 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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