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奉

observance
Stroke count: 8

Readings

On readingホウ、ブ
Kun readingたてまつ.る、まつ.る、ほう.ずる

Verbs with «奉»

奉る奉仕する奉納する

Meanings

  1. observance
    彼は息子を仕立屋に奉公に出した。He bound his son to a tailor.tatoeba
    彼は数週間共同募金運動に奉仕した。He worked for weeks on behalf of the community chest.tatoeba
  2. offer
  3. present
  4. dedicateRtK
    知事は戦死した兵士たちに記念碑を奉納した。The governor dedicated the memorial to the soldiers who died in the war.tatoeba
  1. live-in domestic service
  2. live-in apprenticeship
  3. public duty
  4. public service

Radicals and components

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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observance · bonsai · cornstalk

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1695

Compound words

彼の信奉者たちは彼を賢明で勇敢な人だと尊敬していた。
All his followers looked up to him as a wise and courageous man.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.

すべてのものの上に立つ自由な君主であって、すべてのものに奉仕する従僕であるという。
すべてのもののうえにたつじゆうなくんしゅであって、すべてのものにほうしするじゅうぼくであるという。He is said to be a free sovereign standing above all things, and a servant serving all things.
公務員は民主主義と全人民の利益に奉仕し官僚主義に陥ってはならない。
こうむいんはみんしゅしゅぎとぜんじんみんのりえきにほうししかんりょうしゅぎにおちいってはならない。Civil servants must serve democracy and the interests of all people and not fall into bureaucratism.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

8 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 奉

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