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Kanji Detail for 肥 - "fertile, fat"

肥

  • Meaning

    肥 means "fertile, fat." Also associated with to fatten.

    1. Fertile - Rich in nutrients; productive.

    2. Fat - Having excess flesh; plump.

    3. Fertilize - To enrich; to make productive.

  • Words using 肥

    • 肥料 ひりょう Listen manure; fertilizer; fertiliser
    • 肥満 ひまん Listen corpulence; fatness; obesity
    • 肥大 ひだい Listen swelling; enlargement; becoming fat
    • 化学肥料 かがくひりょう Listen chemical fertilizer; chemical fertiliser
    • 堆肥 たいひ Listen compost; manure
    • 肥える こえる Listen to grow fat; to gain weight; to put on weight

  • Four-character idioms with 肥

    • 大兵肥満 だいひょうひまん Listen big portly man

  • Tattoo check: 肥

    • Verified meaning: fertile, fat
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read ふとし, ふとり, ゆたか)
    • Also carries these associations: to fatten

    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.

  • Name readings of 肥

    Surnames 肥(ふとし)Listen 肥(ふとり)Listen 肥(ゆたか)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    fertilizer; get fat; fertile; manure; pamper

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    fat, plump, obese; fertile

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    fat; fertile; loose-fitting or large; to fertilize; to become rich by illegal means; fertilizer; manure

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    fat, plump, obese; fertile

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

    The opposite of thin. Having full flesh. All animals and plants with much fat are called 肥. Such as describing food as 肥美 (rich and delicious). | All abundance and sufficiency is called 肥. Such as dividing up wealth is called 分肥 (sharing the spoils). | To fertilize fields. Fertilizing to make soil rich. Hence anything used to fertilize fields is also called 肥 (fertilizer). Such as 獸肥 (animal fertilizer), 肥料 (fertilizer).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    hi(ヒ) ヒ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    futo.ru(ふと-る) ふと-る

    ko.eru(こ-える) こ-える

    ko.yashi(こ-やし) こ-やし

    ko.yasu(こ-やす) こ-やす

    koe(こえ) こえ

  • Strokes

    tip

    8 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    肉 月 (niku・nikuzuki)

  • Related Keywords

    fertile fat to fatten to fertilize manure abundant agriculture compost enrich farming growth nutrients obese organic overweight plump productive plentiful

Sentences including 肥

  • He is overweight.

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