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The kanji 暴: meaning, readings and stroke order
暴
- Meaning
- violent, wild
- On reading
- ボウ bou、バク* baku
- Kun reading
- あば（く） abaku、あば（れる） abareru
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 日 sun, day
- Level
- Level 5 · grade 5
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- dữ dội, hung bạo (bạo)
- Japanese
- あらあらしい。あばれる。
- Korean
- 사납다, 날뛰다 (포·폭)
- Chinese
- 凶猛、狂暴
Readings, words and example sentences
ボウ bou · on reading
暴風
violent wind, storm
暴風で 庭の 木が たおれました。
The storm wind knocked down the tree in the garden.
あば（く） abaku · kun reading · less common
暴く
to expose, to uncover
しらべて うそを 暴きます。
I look into it and expose the lie.
あば（れる） abareru · kun reading
暴れる
to go wild, to thrash about
馬が 暴れて います。
The horse is going wild.
* marks a less common reading, usually learnt from junior high on.
Practise writing 暴 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 暴 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 5 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
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.