Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

2327 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 10

Meaning: furrow, thirty tsubo, ridge, rib

Kunyomi: うね

Onyomi: ボウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: field

Examples

Onyomi Examples

mu (Chinese measure of land area, formerly approx. 600 m.sq., currently approx. 667 m.sq.)

ロウホ ridges of and paths between fields, countryside, civilian

Kunyomi Examples

se (Japanese unit of area equal to 30 tsubo, approx. 99.174 m.sq.)

うね ridge (in field), row of raised earth when planting crops, rib (cloth, mountains, sea), cord (e.g. corduroy)

うねり undulation, winding, meandering, swell (of waves), surge, billow, roller