Meaning & readings
sail
On’yomi ハン
Kun’yomi ほ
Origin
This character combines a cloth radical on the left, which refers to fabric or woven material, with a sound component on the right that helps indicate how to pronounce the character. Together they create the idea of a cloth object used for sailing—a sail. The cloth radical makes the meaning clear while the right component tells you roughly how to say it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 6
- Kangxi radical
- 50
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1923 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+05E06