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僕

JLPT N1 14 strokes Frequency: #1236

Meanings

Me, I (male), Servant, Manservant

Radicals

亻

Decomposition

⿰亻菐

Etymology

Pictophonetic: person

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 14

Stroke Order

1 diagonal top-to-bottom

2 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

3 vertical right-to-left

4 vertical right-to-left

5 dot right-to-left

6 diagonal right-to-left

7 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

8 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

9 diagonal right-to-left

10 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

11 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

12 horizontal bottom-to-top

13 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

14 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ボク boku

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

しもべ shimobe

Words Using This Kanji

19 words total

Other (19 words)

manservant

houseboy

public servant

manservant

servant

fellow servant

faithful servant

student studying and working at the school

working student

elderly servant

at my place

manservant

woman who uses the usually male personal pronoun "boku" to refer to herself

young male servant

my home

Servant of God

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