奮 – stirred up, be invigorated, flourish

16 strokesTaught in grade 6#1521 in newspaper frequencyN3 vocabulary

The kanji 奮 means stirred up, be invigorated, flourish. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is フン (fun); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is ふる.う (furuu). It is written with 16 strokes, under radical 大 (no. 37).

Stroke order

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

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	フン	fun
Kun’yomi	ふる.う	furuu

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: 大 (Kangxi radical 37). Components: 大・田・隹.

Words using 奮

興奮こうふんexcitement奮闘ふんとうstrenuous effort

Example sentences

観客は彼のホームランに興奮した。

His home run excited the crowd.

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人々は貧困に向かって奮闘した。

People struggled against poverty.

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Kanji with the same radical

大夫失天太央契奪奥奏奇奨奉奢

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