報 – report, news, reward

12 strokesTaught in grade 5#167 in newspaper frequencyN4 vocabulary

The kanji 報 means report, news, reward, retribution. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ホウ (hou); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is むく.いる (mukuiru). It is written with 12 strokes, under radical 土 (no. 32).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ホウ	hou
Kun’yomi	むく.いる	mukuiru

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: 土 (Kangxi radical 32). Components: 十・辛・土・又・立・亠・卩.

Words using 報

電報でんぽうtelegram天気予報てんきよほうweather forecast情報じょうほうinformation予報よほうforecast報告ほうこくreport報酬ほうしゅうremuneration報道ほうどうreport (of news)報じるほうじるto report報ずるほうずるto report

Example sentences

私は、彼女から電報を受け取った。

I received a telegram from her.

Tatoeba #162168

天気予報が当たったよ。

The weather forecast was right.

Tatoeba #125101

この情報は正しいか。

Is this information right?

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Kanji with the same radical

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