膨
膨 — Swell
swell, get fat, thick
On’yomiボウ (bou)
Kun’yomiふくらむ (fukuramu)
Kun’yomiふくれる (fukureru)
Stroke order (16 strokes)
Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).
Common words using 膨
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 膨大 | ぼうだい boudai | huge; vast; enormous |
| 膨張 | ぼうちょう bouchou | expansion; swelling; increase |
| 膨れる | ふくれる fukureru | to swell (out); to expand; to be inflated |
| 膨らます | ふくらます fukuramasu | to swell; to expand; to inflate |
| 膨らむ | ふくらむ fukuramu | to expand; to swell (out); to get big |
| 膨らみ | ふくらみ fukurami | swelling; bulge; puff |
Study notes
膨 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 16 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1293 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).
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