冒 – risk, face, defy

9 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#1317 in newspaper frequencyN3 vocabulary

The kanji 冒 means risk, face, defy, dare, damage, assume (a name). Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ボウ (bou); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is おか.す (okasu). It is written with 9 strokes, under radical 冂 (no. 13).

Stroke order

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

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ボウ	bou
Kun’yomi	おか.す	okasu

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: 冂 (Kangxi radical 13). Components: 日・目.

Words using 冒

冒険ぼうけんadventure冒頭ぼうとうbeginning

Example sentences

何の冒険もしないなら、何も得られない。

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Tatoeba #187703

残っているのは冒頭の部分だけであった。

All that was left was the opening.

Tatoeba #169295

Kanji with the same radical

内円再冊

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