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Kanji Detail for 粉 - "powder, flour"

粉

  • Meaning

    粉 means "powder, flour." Also associated with cosmetic.

    1. Powder - A fine substance.

    2. Flour - Ground grain.

    3. Cosmetic - Face powder; makeup.

  • Words using 粉

    • 花粉 かふん Listen pollen
    • 小麦粉 こむぎこ Listen wheat flour
    • 粉末 ふんまつ Listen fine powder
    • 花粉症 かふんしょう Listen hay fever; pollinosis (allergy to pollen)
    • 粉ミルク こなミルク Listen milk powder; baby formula; infant formula
    • 白粉 おしろい Listen white makeup powder; (face) powder
    • パン粉 パンこ Listen breadcrumbs; panko; bread flour

  • Four-character idioms with 粉

    • 粉飾決算 ふんしょくけっさん Listen fraudulent accounting; window-dressing settlement of accounts; creative accounting
    • 粉骨砕身 ふんこつさいしん Listen making one's best exertions

  • Tattoo check: 粉

    • Verified meaning: powder, flour
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read こな, ふくま, ふくまる, みねぎし)
    • Also carries these associations: cosmetic

    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 粉

    Surnames 粉(こな)Listen 粉(ふくま)Listen 粉(ふくまる)Listen 粉(みねぎし)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    flour; powder; dust

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    powder, face powder; plaster

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    powder; cosmetic face powder; food prepared from starch; noodles or pasta made from any kind of flour; to turn to powder; (dialect) to whitewash; white; pink; (suffix) fan (abbr. for 粉絲|粉丝[fen3 si1]); to be a fan of

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    powder, flour, cosmetic powder; plaster

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

    Rice flour. All substances ground fine into powder are called 粉. | Crushed. Such as saying 粉身碎骨 (body crushed to powder and bones shattered). | White pigment. Also used as cosmetics. Such as 粉黛 (powder and eyebrow pencil), 脂粉 (rouge and powder). Hence metaphorically beautiful is called 金粉 (gold powder), 紅粉 (red powder). | Applying powder to things is called 粉. Hence doing things without seeking substance but only pursuing appearance is called 粉飾 (whitewashing).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    fun(フン) フン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    deshimeetoru(でしめえとる) でしめえとる

    ko(こ) こ

    kona(こな) こな

  • Strokes

    tip

    10 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    米 (kome・komehen)

  • Related Keywords

    powder flour cosmetic lime dust chalk crumbly fine granular ground makeup meal pulverized starch substance

Sentences including 粉

  • Hay fever is tough.

  • That's powdered medicine.

  • The bottle smashed to pieces.

  • He's allergic to pollen.

  • The bronze statue was broken into pieces.

  • Put the flour on the shelf.

  • Tom has hay fever.

  • I'm allergic to pollen.

  • The vase burst into fragments.

  • The vase was broken to pieces.

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