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斑

spot
Stroke count: 12

Readings

On readingハン
Kun readingふ、まだら
JōyōGrade 8KANJIDIC

Meanings

  1. spot
    豹はその斑点を変えることはできない。A leopard cannot change his spots.tatoeba
    法輪寺_(斑鳩町)Horin-ji Temple _(Ikaruga-cho)wiki
  2. blemish
  3. speck
  4. patches
  5. speckledRtK
  1. unevenness (of colour, paint, etc.)
  2. irregularity
  3. nonuniformity
  4. blotchiness
  5. unevenness (of quality, results, behaviour, etc.)

Homonyms

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Same reading (むら)
村 · village

Radicals and components

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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king (王) · jewel (玉) · ball (玉) · sentence · plaid · kilt · Billy Connolly

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1865

Compound words

一斑いっぱん
single part (of a whole)
黄斑おうはん
macula
虎斑とらふ
tiger stripes
雀斑そばかす
freckle
斑点はんてん
(scattered) spots
斑馬シマウマ
zebra
斑白はんぱく
grayish color
斑鳩イカル
Japanese grosbeak (Eophona personata)
母斑ぼはん
nevus
羽斑蚊はまだらか
Anopheles (genus of mosquitoes)
三斑鶉みふうずら
barred button quail (Turnix suscitator)
出血斑しゅっけつはん
bloody spots
石斑魚うぐい
Japanese dace (Tribolodon hakonensis)
大樺斑おおかばまだら
monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
大赤斑だいせきはん
(Jupiter's) Great Red Spot
斑糲岩はんれいがん
gabbro
斑蜚蠊まだらごきぶり
Rhabdoblatta guttigera (species of cockroach)
翅斑蚊はまだらか
Anopheles (genus of mosquitoes)
支那翅斑蚊しなはまだらか
Anopheles sinensis (species of mosquito)
斑フルマ鴎まだらフルマかもめ
Cape pigeon
大西洋斑海豚たいせいようまだらいるか
Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis)
熨斗目斑螟蛾のしめまだらめいが
Indian meal moth (Plodia interpunctella)

Additional Examples

三室山 (斑鳩町)
Mt. Mimuro (Ikaruga-cho)wiki

Stroke Order

12 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 斑

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