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阜

Mound
Stroke count: 8

Readings

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Meanings

  1. mound
  2. hill
  3. left village radical (no. 170)
  4. large hillRtK

Radicals and components

Radical阜mound
Components
How it's built
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Mnemonic (RtK)

ⓘ

maestro · ten (十) · needle (丨)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1360

Compound words

岐阜ぎふ
Gifu (city, prefecture)
陰阜いんぷ
mons veneris
肉阜にくふ
caruncle (of a bird)
阜頭ふとう
pier
阜偏こざとへん
kanji "mound" or "small village" radical at left (radical 170)
岐阜県ぎふけん
Gifu Prefecture (Chūbu area)
岐阜市ぎふし
Gifu City
岐阜城ぎふじょう
Gifu Castle
岐阜縣ぎふけん
Gifu Prefecture (Chūbu area)
岐阜県警ぎふけんけい
Gifu Prefectural Police
岐阜提灯ぎふぢょうちん
gifu lantern
岐阜提燈ぎふぢょうちん
gifu lantern
岐阜教育大学ぎふきょういくだいがく
Gifu University of Education

Additional Examples

私たちは岐阜に行った。
We went to Gifu.tatoeba
現在の岐阜県揖斐郡。
Modern-day Ibi-gun, Gifu Prefecture.wiki
岐阜県文化財保護条例
Gifu Prefecture Ordinance for the Protection of Cultural Propertieswiki

Stroke Order

8 strokes

Mound, hill. Layers of piled earth — the hill sign (as the radical ⻖ on the left). In the name Gifu (岐阜).

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 阜

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step