朴 — kanji meaning “crude”
朴
crude, simple, plain, docile
- Meanings
- crude, simple, plain, docile
- On'yomi
- ボク (boku)
- Kun'yomi
- ほう、ほお、えのき
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #1626 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 75
- Chinese reading
- pò, piáo, pǔ, pú — Chinese character page
Words with 朴
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 素朴 | そぼく soboku | simple; artless; naive |
| 純朴 | じゅんぼく junboku | simple and honest; unsophisticated; simpleminded |
| 朴訥 | ぼくとつ bokutotsu | unsophisticated; ruggedly honest; artless |
| 朴念仁 | ぼくねんじん bokunenjin | quiet unsociable person |
| 朴の木 | ほおのき hoonoki | magnolia (Magnolia obovata); Japanese big leaf magnolia |
| 質朴 | しつぼく shitsuboku | simple (and honest); simple-hearted; unsophisticated |
| 敦朴 | とんぼく tonboku | honest and homely; simple |
| 朴直 | ぼくちょく bokuchoku | simplicity; honesty; naivete |
| 単純素朴 | たんじゅんそぼく tanjunsoboku | plain and simple; naive |
| 朴葉味噌 | ほおばみそ hoobamiso | magnolia leaves grilled with miso and negi |
| 厚朴 | こうぼく kouboku | Japanese bigleaf magnolia bark (used in Chinese medicine) |
| 朴伴 | ぼくはん bokuhan | Camellia japonica 'Bokuhan' (cultivar of common camellia) |
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