Meanings

Seal, Closing

Radicals

寸

Decomposition

⿰圭寸

Etymology

Ideographic: To seal 寸 something with a handful of mortar 土

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 9

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-to-top

2 vertical right-to-left

3 horizontal bottom-to-top

4 horizontal bottom-to-top

5 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

6 rising bottom-to-top

7 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

8 hook right-to-left

9 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ホウ hou

フウ fuu

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

No common kun'yomi readings

Words Using This Kanji

92 words total

Other (12 words)

vassal

feudal state

feudal lord

Berlin Decree (1806)

sealing water

padded envelope

landlocked fish

freezing a bank account

信書開封罪しんしょかいふうざい

(crime of) opening sealed correspondence

口を封じるくちをふうじる

to muzzle

封入体ふうにゅうたい

inclusion body

一封いっぷう

sealed letter

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