阜 · hill, mound, left village radical (no. 170)

JLPT N4 kanji. Readings, meaning, and how the character is built.

阜 means hill, mound, left village radical (no. 170). It is a JLPT N4 kanji written in 8 strokes, read ふ or ふう. It is built from 2 parts: 𠂤 (to store up, to pile up), 十 (ten).

筆順 · Stroke order

阜 is written in 8 strokes, in the order numbered below. Order matters: it is what makes handwriting legible, and it is how the character is looked up in a paper dictionary.

解字 · What it is made of

阜 breaks into 2 parts.

• 𠂤 other to store up, to pile up · top component
• 十 other ten · bottom component

Built from the same parts

These use 𠂤 or 十 too. The part keeps its job from one character to the next, which is what makes it worth learning once.

• 千thousand
• 計measure
• 直to fix
• 早early

Practise 阜

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