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粉

Powder
Stroke count: 10

Readings

On readingフン
Kun readingこな、こ
JLPT level: N2JōyōGrade 4Level 31

Meanings

  1. powder
  2. flourRtK
    彼はたくさんの小麦粉と油を買い込んだ。He bought a lot of flour and oil.tatoeba
  3. dust
  1. heroin

Synonyms

パウダー粉末

Popular Usage

花粉

Radicals and components

Radical米rice
Components
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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rice (米) · part · eight (八) · sword (刀) · dagger (刀)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 988

Compound words

粉物こなもの
Flour-based foods, such as okonomiyaki and takoyaki.
金粉きんぷん
gold dust
花粉かふん
pollen
粉砕ふんさい
pulverization; pulverisation; reducing to pieces; crushing; smashing
粉飾ふんしょく
embellishment (e.g. of a story); ornamentation; decoration; putting on makeup
粉末ふんまつ
fine powder
白粉おしろい
white makeup powder; (face) powder
パン粉パンこ
breadcrumbs; panko; bread flour
花粉症かふんしょう
hay fever; pollinosis (allergy to pollen)
小麦粉こむぎこ
wheat flour
粉ミルクこなミルク
milk powder; baby formula; infant formula; formula; baby milk
黄粉きなこ
kinako
樫粉かしご
oak flour (esp. as animal food)
葛粉くずこ
kudzu starch
穀粉こくふん
(grain) flour
授粉じゅふん
pollination
汁粉しるこ
shiruko
製粉せいふん
milling, flour production
澱粉でんぷん
starch
粉糠こぬか
rice bran
粉雪こなゆき
powder snow
粉齏ふんせい
pulverization
粉韲ふんせい
pulverization
鱗粉りんぷん
(insectile, especially moth) scales

Kun Reading Examples

彼女は金づちで鏡を粉々にしました。こなごな
She shattered the mirror with a hammer.tatoeba

Additional Examples

彼は彼女からの手紙を怒って粉々に引き裂いた。
He angrily tore up the letter from her.tatoeba
彼は手紙を粉々に引き裂いて窓からばら撒いた。
He tore up his letter into small bits and threw them out the window.tatoeba
彼はハンマーでコンクリートブロックを粉々にした。
He broke up the concrete block with a hammer.tatoeba

Stroke Order

10 strokes

Powder, flour. 米 (rice) + 分 (divide) — rice ground to dust. 小麦粉 — wheat flour.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 粉

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