The kanji 猛: meaning, readings and stroke order
猛
- Meaning
- fierce
- On reading
- モウ mou
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 犬 dog
- Level
- Level 7 · junior high school
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- dữ dội, mãnh liệt (mãnh)
- Japanese
- たけだけしい。とても はげしい。
- Korean
- 사납다, 맹렬하다 (맹)
- Chinese
- 凶猛、猛烈
Readings, words and example sentences
モウ mou · on reading
猛暑
extreme heat, heat wave
今年の 夏は 猛暑でした。
This summer was extremely hot.
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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.