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幅

Width
Stroke count: 12

Readings

On readingフク
Kun readingはば

Verbs with «幅»

増幅する

Meanings

  1. width
  2. hanging scrollRtK
  1. breadth
  2. freedom (e.g. of thought)
  3. latitude
  4. gap

Popular Usage

大幅

Radicals and components

Radical巾cloth
Components
How it's built
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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towel · wealth · one (一) · ceiling (冖) · mouth (口) · rice field (田) · brains

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 435

Compound words

彼は幅広い経験を積んでいる人だ。
He is a man of wide experience.tatoeba
彼は幅を利かせて何でも自分の思うようにさせる。
He gets his way by throwing his weight around.tatoeba
彼は走り幅跳びに専念するために競争をやめた。
He has given up running in order to focus on the long jump.tatoeba
彼は肩幅が広い。
He has broad shoulders.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

メニューを大幅に簡素化した
めにゅーをおおはばにかんそかしたGreatly simplified the menu.
彼には全幅の信頼を置いている
かれにはぜんぷくのしんらいをおいているI place my full trust in him.
幅広い年齢層に支持されてる
はばひろいねんれいそうにしじされてるSupported by a wide range of ages.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

12 strokes

Width. 巾 (cloth) + 畐 — the width of a bolt of cloth. 幅広い — broad.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 幅

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