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Readings

Kana: ホ、ホウ、ひさご

Romaji: ho, hou, hisago

Kana

Romaji

Meaning

gourd

Stroke Diagram

Kanji Info

Stroke Count: 11

Radical Number: 20

Frequency:

Grade:

Skip Pattern: 1-6-5

Korean Reading: po

Chinese Reading: pao2

Unicode: 530f

JIS: 5237

Indexes

New Nelson Index: 576

Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 0a11.2

Four Corner Index: 4721.2

Japanese Names Index: 1655

Daikanwanjiten Index: 2544

Daikanwanjiten Index and Page: 2.0433

Words

瓠 (ふくべ、ひょう)

Lagenaria siceraria var. gourda (variety of bottle gourd); gourd (container) made from its fruit; Lagenaria siceraria var. depressa (variety of bottle gourd)

瓠 (ひさご、ひさこ、ひさ)

gourd; calabash; bottle gourd; dried gourd, used as flask

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