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Kanji Detail for 麓 - "foot of a mountain"

麓

  • Meaning

    麓 means "foot of a mountain."

    1. Foothills - The base of a mountain; the foot of a mountain.

    2. Forest manager - An official managing mountain forests.

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    • Verified meaning: foot of a mountain
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read はすみ, はやま, ふもと, れい)

    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 麓

    Surnames 麓(はすみ)Listen 麓(はやま)Listen 麓(ふもと)Listen 麓(れい)Listen 麓(ろく)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    foot of a mountain

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    foothill

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    foot of a hill

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    the base of a hill; foothill

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

    The foot of a mountain is called 麓. As in 嶽麓 (foot of Mount Yue) and the like.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    roku(ロク) ロク

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    fumoto(ふもと) ふもと

  • Strokes

    tip

    19 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    木 (ki・kihen)鹿 (shika)

  • Related Keywords

    foothills forest manager foot of a mountain base bottom slope valley lowland terrain hiking trail foundation

Sentences including 麓

  • You see a white building at the foot of the hill.

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