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JLPT N3 SL3 8 strokes Frequency: #288

Meanings

Set Free, Release, Fire, Shoot, Emit, Banish, Liberate

Radicals

Decomposition

⿰方攵

Etymology

Pictophonetic: let go

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 8

Stroke Order

1 vertical right-to-left
2 horizontal bottom-to-top
3 hook bottom-right-to-top-left
4 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left
5 diagonal right-to-left
6 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left
7 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left
8 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
ホウ hou
Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)
ko
ほう hou
はな hana