矛 — kanji meaning “halberd”
矛
halberd, arms, festival float
- Meanings
- halberd, arms, festival float
- On'yomi
- ム (mu)、ボウ (bou)
- Kun'yomi
- ほこ
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #1538 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 110
- Chinese reading
- máo — Chinese character page
Words with 矛
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 矛盾 | むじゅん mujun | contradiction; inconsistency |
| 矛先 | ほこさき hokosaki | point of a spear; spearhead |
| 自己矛盾 | じこむじゅん jikomujun | self-contradiction; paradox; antinomy |
| 矛盾語法 | むじゅんごほう mujungohou | oxymoron |
| 矛盾撞着 | むじゅんどうちゃく mujundouchaku | self-contradiction |
| 前後矛盾 | ぜんごむじゅん zengomujun | self-contradiction; self-inconsistency |
| 撞着矛盾 | どうちゃくむじゅん douchakumujun | self-contradiction |
| 相矛盾 | あいむじゅん aimujun | mutually contradictory |
| 形容矛盾 | けいようむじゅん keiyoumujun | contradictio in adjecto; contradiction between an adjective and the noun it modifies (wooden iron, hot ice, etc.) |
| 矛偏 | ほこへん hokohen | kanji "spear" radical at left |
| 銅矛 | どうほこ douhoko | bronze hoko; bronze halberd; bronze spearhead |
| 瓊矛 | ぬほこ nuhoko | jeweled spear (jewelled) |
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