EntryCommonJLPT N1
  1. Noun

    the Rabbit (fourth sign of the Chinese zodiac); the Hare

  2. hour of the Rabbit (around 6am, 5-7am, or 6-8am)

    see 卯の刻

  3. east

    Obsolete term

  4. second month in the lunar calendar

    Obsolete term

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

sign of the hare or rabbit, fourth sign of Chinese zodiac, 5-7AM, east

Kun
On
ボウモウ
Strokes
5
Taught
Jinmeiyō
JLPT
N1
Frequency
2400 of 2500
Radical
seal

Built from

Used in names as

あきらしげる

Dictionary and index codes (22)
CodeReference
1-3-2SKIP code
2e3.1The Kanji Dictionary
7772.0Four corner code
536fUnicode hex code
1-17-12JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
806Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
628New Nelson (John Haig)
199New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
231Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
148Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
177Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2041Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2199Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2052A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
259Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1983Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
2847Morohashi
2031Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2062Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
mao3Pinyin reading
myoKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)