Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1317 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 9

Meaning: risk, face, defy, dare, damage, assume (a name)

Kunyomi: おか.す

Onyomi: ボウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading:

Meaning: open country

Strokes: 5

Examples

Examples with audio

険(ぼうけん)   adventure [n.]

頭(ぼうとう)   opening (of a story, article, etc.)

涜する(ぼうとくする)   desecrate, blaspheme

す(おかす)   risk, take a risk

Onyomi Examples

ボウトウ beginning, opening, start, outset

ボウケン adventure, venture, venture which is unlikely to succeed, risky attempt, danger, hazard, risk

カンボウ cold (illness)

流行性感 リュウコウセイカンボウ influenza, flu

Kunyomi Examples

おかす to brave, to risk, to face, to venture, to harm, to afflict, to affect, to desecrate, to profane, to assume (someone else's surname), to take