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KanjiJLPT N1 › 宏

宏 — Wide

JLPT N17 strokesSecondary school#1277 most used
wide, large
On’yomiコウ (kou)
Kun’yomiひろ (hiroi)

Stroke order (7 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

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

Study notes

宏 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 7 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1277 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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