Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1293 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 16

Meaning: swell, get fat, thick

Kunyomi: ふく.らむ ふく.れる

Onyomi: ボウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: meat

Examples

Onyomi Examples

ボウチョウ expansion, swelling, increase, growth

ボウダイ huge, vast, enormous, colossal, extensive, large, swelling, expansion

カイボウ rise

Kunyomi Examples

らむ ふくらむ to expand, to swell (out), to get big, to become inflated

れる ふくれる to swell (out), to expand, to be inflated, to distend, to bulge, to get cross, to get sulky, to pout