包 – wrap, pack up, cover

5 strokesTaught in grade 4#954 in newspaper frequencyN4 vocabulary

The kanji 包 means wrap, pack up, cover, conceal. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ホウ (hou); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is つつ.む、くる.む (tsutsumu, kurumu). It is written with 5 strokes, under radical 勹 (no. 20).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ホウ	hou
Kun’yomi	つつ.む	tsutsumu
Kun’yomi	くる.む	kurumu

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 勹 (Kangxi radical 20). Components: 勹・已.

Words using 包

包むつつむto wrap up小包こづつみparcel包みつつみbundle包装ほうそうpacking包帯ほうたいbandage包丁ほうちょうkitchen knife

Example sentences

彼女は贈り物を紙に包んだ。

She wrapped the present in paper.

Tatoeba #88153

島は濃い霧に包まれていた。

The island was enveloped in a thick fog.

Tatoeba #124318

この小包を船便で送ってください。

Please send this parcel by surface mail.

Tatoeba #221135

Kanji with the same radical

匂

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.