Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

723 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 15

Meaning: step, trample, carry through, appraise, evade payment

Kunyomi: ふ.む ふ.まえる

Onyomi: トウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: foot

Examples

Onyomi Examples

トウハ travelling on foot, traveling on foot, travelling all over

トウシュウ following (a precedent, former policy, etc.), continuing with, sticking to, observing

前人未到 ゼンジンミトウ untrodden (region, field of study, etc.), unprecedented (discovery, achievement, etc.)

コウトウ highbrow, aloof, transcendent

Kunyomi Examples

ふむ to step on, to tread on, to trample on, to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil), to stand on, to visit, to experience, to undergo, to follow (rules, principles, etc.), to go through (e.g. formalities), to complete, to estimate, to guess, to judge, to value, to appraise, to rhyme, to succeed to (e.g. the throne)

まえる ふまえる to be based on, to take into account, to build upon, to have origin in, to have one's feet firmly planted on, to plant oneself on