Meaning & readings
abdomen, belly, stomach
On’yomi フク
Kun’yomi はら
Origin
This character combines the flesh radical 月, which marks body parts, on the left side with a sound hint component 复 on the right that suggests the pronunciation. The flesh radical makes clear this character refers to a part of the body rather than something abstract. The right component doesn't contribute meaning—it's purely there to hint at how the character should be pronounced. Together they create a character that points to the soft, fleshy part of the body between the ribs and hips: the abdomen or belly.
Components
- 月
- 复
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
- 13
- Kangxi radical
- 130
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Grade 6 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #1286 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+08179