The kanji 冒: meaning, readings and stroke order
冒
- Meaning
- risk, dare
- On reading
- ボウ bou
- Kun reading
- おか(す) okasu
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 目 eye
- Level
- Level 7 · junior high school
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- mạo hiểm, bất chấp (mạo)
- Japanese
- あぶない ことを あえて する。
- Korean
- 무릅쓰다 (모)
- Chinese
- 冒险、冒着
Readings, words and example sentences
ボウ bou · on reading
冒険
adventure
冒険の 物語が 好きです。
I like adventure stories.
おか(す) okasu · kun reading · less common
冒す
to brave, to take (a risk)
危険を 冒して 進みます。
They go on, braving the danger.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.