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肥 = 月 + 巴

肥 is a Japanese kanji written with 8 strokes, listed here under the keyword “fertilizer”. It is built from 月 (month) and 巴 (comma-design). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 1893.

Keyword
fertilizer
RTK frame
1893
Strokes
8
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
ヒ
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
こ.える, こえ, こ.やす, こ.やし, ふと.る
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
удобрение
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
肥 fat

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 月 month
  2. 巴 comma-design

How to find 肥 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “month” + “comma-design”. 肥 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

Open 肥 in the interactive kanji search to expand every part down to its smallest pieces, add your own names and mnemonic stories, or search for other characters by their parts.