Meaning & readings
recruit, campaign, gather (contributions), enlist, grow violent
Origin
This character combines a sound hint with a meaning component. The top part, 莫, suggests the pronunciation "bo." The bottom part, 力, means strength or force, which indicates this character relates to physical power and effort. Together, these components suggest the idea of gathering strength or power—which connects to the meanings of recruiting people, enlisting them, or gathering contributions, since all involve bringing together and mobilizing effort and resources.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 莫
- 力
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 12
- Kangxi radical
- 19
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #809 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+052DF