Kanji Detail for 堡 - "fort, embankment"

堡

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
堡 means "fort, embankment."
1. Fort - A small castle built of earth or stone.
2. Embankment - A dike; a levee.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

fort

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

fort, fortress; town, village

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

(bound form) fortress; stronghold; (often used to transliterate -berg, -burg etc in place names); (bound form) burger (abbr. for 漢堡|汉堡[han4 bao3])

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

fort, fortress; town, village

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

A small fortification. Also called 堡障. Set up in villages to defend against bandits.
Onyomi

ho(ほ)

hoh(ほう)
Kunyomi

toride(とりで)
Strokes

12 strokes
Radical

土 (tsuchi・tsuchihen・dohen)
Related Keywords
fort small castle built earth stone embankment dike levee