Meanings
- stipend
- salary
Strokes10
JLPT levelN1
School gradeSecondary school
Frequency#1834 of 2,500
Kanji N1
俸: stipend, salary
俸 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning stipend, salary, written with 10 strokes. It is read ホウ (on), and has no common kun reading. It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 年俸 (ねんぽう, annual salary) and 減俸 (げんぽう, salary reduction).
俸
On reading · Kun reading
On reading
- ホウ
On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.
Kun reading
- None in common use
Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.
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