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肥

Obese
Stroke count: 8

Readings

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Kun readingこ.える、こ.やす、こえ

Meanings

  1. obese
  2. fertilizerRtK
  3. get fat
  4. fertile
  5. manure
  6. pamper
  1. night soil
  2. dung
  3. fertiliser

Homonyms

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Same reading (こえ)
声 · voice

Radicals and components

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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moon (月) · month (月) · flesh (月) · part of the body (月) · mosaic

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1893

Compound words

彼らの畜牛はみなよく肥えている。こえる
Their cattle are all fat.tatoeba
彼は肥満とはいえないが、大柄の人だった。
He was well built, if not fat as such.tatoeba
彼は肥満体だ。
He is overweight.tatoeba
彼は私腹を肥やすのに余念がない。
He is always busy feathering his own nest.tatoeba
彼は芸術に関しては目が肥えている。
He has a good eye for art.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.

肥料の分析をしました。
ひりょうのぶんせきをしました。I analyzed the fertilizer.
肥満は健康にとって非常に悪い
ひまんはけんこうにとってひじょうにわるいObesity is very bad for health.
ジャムが使い切れなくて冷蔵庫の肥やしになっている。
じゃむがつかいきれなくてれいぞうこのこやしになっている。Jam that I can't use up ends up as a dead weight in the fridge.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

8 strokes

Grow fat; fertiliser. 月 (body) + 巴 (a coiled snake) — a body that has spread out. 肥料 — fertiliser.

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