粉 – flour, powder, dust

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The kanji 粉 means flour, powder, dust. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is フン (fun); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is デシメートル、こ、こな (deshimeetoru, ko, kona). It is written with 10 strokes, under radical 米 (no. 119).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	フン	fun
Kun’yomi	デシメートル	deshimeetoru
Kun’yomi	こ	ko
Kun’yomi	こな	kona

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: 米 (Kangxi radical 119). Components: 刀・并・米・ハ.

Words using 粉

粉こなflour花粉かふんpollen粉末ふんまつfine powder粉々こなごなin very small pieces

Example sentences

この小麦は粉にされる。

This wheat is made into flour.

Tatoeba #221141

花粉よりも小さな黄砂をマスクでどれだけ防ぐことが出来るのか？花粉よりもずっと厄介者のように思います。

Just how well can masks block the, even smaller than pollen, yellow sand dust? I think it much more of a nuisance than pollen.

Tatoeba #75597

アルミニウム、マグネシウム、シリコンなどの粉末が爆発する。

Powders of aluminium, magnesium, silicon, etc. explode.

Tatoeba #74253

Kanji with the same radical

米精糧粘糖粧粒粗粋粥糊

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