Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 2

JLPT level: N5

570 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 5

Meaning: mother

Kunyomi: はは

Onyomi:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: なかれ

Meaning: mother, do not

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

国語(ぼこくご)   mother tongue

音(ぼいん)   vowel

校(ぼこう)   alma mater

(そぼ)   grandmother

(はは)   one's own mother

親(ははおや)   mother

*おさん(おかあさん)   mother [hon.]

Onyomi Examples

ボコク one's home country, one's homeland

ボコウ alma mater

養父 ヨウフボ adoptive parents

クウボ aircraft carrier

Kunyomi Examples

はは mother

ははおや mother

必要は発明の ひつようははつめいのはは necessity is the mother of invention

失敗は成功の しっぱいはせいこうのはは failure is the mother of success

もや purlin (structural beam in a roof), purline, main building (of a manor), central room (in traditional palatial-style architecture)

屋桁 もやげた purlin (structural beam in a roof), purline

うんも mica, isinglass

うば wet nurse, nursing mother