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匐

Readings

Kana: ホク、フク

Romaji: hoku, fuku

Kana

Romaji

Meaning

crawl

Stroke Diagram

Kanji Info

Stroke Count: 11

Radical Number: 20

Frequency:

Grade:

Skip Pattern: 3-2-9

Korean Reading: bog

Chinese Reading: fu2

Unicode: 5310

JIS: 5236

Indexes

Nelson Index: 749

New Nelson Index: 577

Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 5f6.8

Four Corner Index: 2762.0

Daikanwanjiten Index: 2545

Daikanwanjiten Index and Page: 2.0434

Words

匍匐 (ほふく)

creeping; crawling; sneaking

匐行疹 (ふっこうしん)

ringworm

ほふく前進 (ほふくぜんしん)

crawling along

匍匐茎 (ほふくけい)

stolon; runner; creeper

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