The kanji 報: meaning, readings and stroke order
報
- Meaning
- report, repay
- On reading
- ホウ hou
- Kun reading
- むく(いる) mukuiru
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 土 earth
- Level
- Level 5 · grade 5
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- báo tin, đền đáp (báo)
- Japanese
- しらせる。おかえしを する。
- Korean
- 알리다, 갚다 (보)
- Chinese
- 报告、报答 (报)
Readings, words and example sentences
ホウ hou · on reading
予報
forecast
毎朝 天気予報を 見ます。
I check the weather forecast every morning.
むく(いる) mukuiru · kun reading · less common
報いる
to reward, to repay
努力に 報いる 結果に なりました。
The result paid off all our hard work.
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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.