10 strokes
Jouyou kanji
Taught in 11th grade

nurse, suckle

Kun'yomi
  • はぐく
  • ふく
On'yomi
  • holding food in one's mouth

Main Radical

(KanXi)

Reading Commonality

100.0%

Character Breakdown

nurse, suckle
ホ はぐく.む ふく.む (11th)
mouth
くち コウ ク (1st, N4)
for the first time, not until
ホ フ はじ.めて (Kentei Pre-1, N1)
ten
ジュウ ジッ ジュッ (1st, N5)
month, moon
つき ゲツ ガツ (1st, N5)
dot, tick or dot radical (no. 3)
チュ (Kentei 1)

Common Words

nursing (esp. an animal)
holding food in one's mouth
caring for one's parents in return
(a statesman making) extraordinary efforts to find and employ capable persons (persons of great wisdom)
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References

Unicode hex code 54FA
JIS X 0208 1-51-14
Nelson, A. Classic Nelson 929
Haig, J. New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary 810
Halpern, J. New Japanese-English Character Dictionary 401
Halpern, J. Kodansha Kanji Dictionary 478
Halpern, J. Kanji Learners Dictionary (Kodansha), 2nd edition (2013) 359
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji, Sixth Ed. 1979
Morohashi Daikanwajiten 3676
Spahn and Hadamitzky Kanji and Kana (2011 edition) 1535
Tuttle Dictionary Descriptor Code 3d7.4
Four corner code 6302.7