The kanji 芳: meaning, readings and stroke order
芳
- Meaning
- fragrant
- On reading
- ホウ hou
- Kun reading
- かんば(しい) kanbashii
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 艸 grass
- Level
- Level 8 · the last years of junior high
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- thơm (phương)
- Japanese
- よい かおり。
- Korean
- 향기롭다 (방)
- Chinese
- 芳香
Readings, words and example sentences
ホウ hou · on reading · less common
芳香
fragrance, sweet smell
花の 芳香が ただよいます。
The sweet smell of flowers fills the air.
かんば(しい) kanbashii · kun reading · less common
芳しい
good, hopeful (often with "not")
けっかは 芳しく ありません。
The results are not very good.
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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.