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Kanji VocabularyJLPT N1 › 朴

朴 — Crude

JLPT N16 strokesSecondary school#1626 most used
crude, simple, plain, docile
On’yomiボク (boku)
Kun’yomiほう (hou)
Kun’yomiほお (hoo)
Kun’yomiえのき (enoki)

Stroke order (6 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6

Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).

Common words using 朴

WordReadingMeaning
素朴そぼく
soboku
simple; artless; naive
純朴じゅんぼく
junboku
simple and honest; unsophisticated; simpleminded

Study notes

朴 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 6 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1626 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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