12 strokes
Kentei exam level Pre-1

raft

Kun'yomi
  • raft ②forearm guard (made of thin metal plates) ③skewered baby-eel kabayaki
On'yomi
  • バツ
  • ハツ
  • ボチ

Main Radical

(KanXi)

Reading Commonality

いかだ 100.0%

Character Breakdown

raft
いかだ バツ ボチ (Kentei Pre-1)
bamboo
たけ チク たか (1st, N2)
individual(個) variant
knife, wrapping enclosure(勹) variant
feathered stick, barb radical (no. 6)
ケツ かぎ (Kentei 1)
fell, strike, attack
バツ き.る う.つ (8th, N1)
human radical (no. 9)
halberd, arms, festival car
ほこ カ ほこづくり (Kentei 1)
katakana no radical (no. 4)
ヘツ えい よう (Kentei 1)
piling, ceremony radical (no. 56)
ヨク いぐるみ (Kentei 1)

Common Words

floral raft ②Helwingia japonica (species of shrub) ③oily perfume applied under white makeup
sending logs downstream bound together in rafts
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References

Unicode hex code 7B4F
JIS X 0208 1-40-21
Nelson, A. Classic Nelson 3391
Haig, J. New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary 4282
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji 2629
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji, Sixth Ed. 2673
O'Neill, P.G. Japanese Names 1766
Morohashi Daikanwajiten 26000
Tuttle Dictionary Descriptor Code 6f6.7
Four corner code 8825.3