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Kanji Detail for 哺 - "nurse, suckle"

哺

  • Meaning

    哺 means "nurse, suckle."

    1. To nurture - To raise; to feed; parent birds feeding chicks mouth-to-mouth.

    2. To contain - To hold food in the mouth; also, that food.

  • Four-character idioms with 哺

    • 握髪吐哺 あくはつとほ Listen (a statesman making) extraordinary efforts to find and employ capable persons (persons of great wisdom)

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    • Verified meaning: nurse, suckle
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    nurse; suckle

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    chew food; feed

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to feed

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to chew; to feed

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Food being chewed in the mouth. | Birds feeding their young is called 哺.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    ho(ホ) ホ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    fuku.mu(ふく-む) ふく-む

    haguku.mu(はぐく-む) はぐく-む

  • Strokes

    tip

    10 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    口 (kuchi・kuchihen)

  • Related Keywords

    to nurture to contain food nursing suckling breastfeeding nourishment feeding lactation maternal raise caretaking milk mouth

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