The kanji 妨: meaning, readings and stroke order
妨
- Meaning
- hinder, disturb
- On reading
- ボウ bou
- Kun reading
- さまた(げる) samatageru
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 女 woman, female
- Level
- Level 8 · the last years of junior high
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- cản trở (phương)
- Japanese
- さまたげる。じゃま する。
- Korean
- 방해하다 (방)
- Chinese
- 妨碍、阻碍
Readings, words and example sentences
ボウ bou · on reading · less common
妨害
obstruction, getting in the way
工事が 通行の 妨害に なります。
The construction work gets in the way of traffic.
さまた(げる) samatageru · kun reading · less common
妨げる
to disturb, to get in the way of
音が 勉強を 妨げます。
Noise gets in the way of studying.
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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.