Meaning & readings
wealth, enrich, abundant
Origin
The character 富 combines a roof or house component on top (宀) with a sound hint below (畐) that indicates its pronunciation. The roof element suggests the idea of a home or dwelling, which connects to the concept of wealth—a person's accumulated possessions and resources, particularly what fills their house. The lower component doesn't contribute a meaning of its own, but rather signals roughly how the character should be pronounced. Together, the visual suggestion of a full, prosperous home came to represent abundance and enrichment.
Components
- 宀
- 畐
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Easily confused with
These look alike but are unrelated in meaning — check the stroke that differs.
Reference
- Strokes
- 12
- Kangxi radical
- 40
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Grade 4 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #644 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+05BCC