膨 – swell, get fat, thick

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The kanji 膨 means swell, get fat, thick. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ボウ (bou); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is ふく.らむ、ふく.れる (fukuramu, fukureru). It is written with 16 strokes, under radical 肉 (no. 130).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ボウ	bou
Kun’yomi	ふく.らむ	fukuramu
Kun’yomi	ふく.れる	fukureru

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: 肉 (Kangxi radical 130). Components: 月・口・十・土・豆・并・彡.

Words using 膨

膨大ぼうだいhuge膨らむふくらむto expand膨らますふくらますto swell膨張ぼうちょうexpansion膨れるふくれるto swell (out)

Example sentences

インテル社はその発明で膨大な特許料を得ている。

Intel gets a huge royalty from the invention.

Tatoeba #228378

イースト菌がパン生地を膨らます。

Yeast makes dough rise.

Tatoeba #229400

多くの天文学者は、宇宙は永遠に膨張してゆくものだと考えている。

Many astronomers assume that the universe expands infinitely.

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Kanji with the same radical

能育脳背脱肉臓肝胸腕脅肩腐脚腹腰

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