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蕩 = 湯 + 艹

蕩 is a Japanese kanji written with 15 strokes, listed here under the keyword “prodigal”. It is built from 湯 (hot water) and 艹 (mugwort). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 2444.

Keyword
prodigal
RTK frame
2444
Strokes
15
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
トウ
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
とろ.かす, とろ.ける, うご.く
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
melt, блудный
Same glyph as a traditional Chinese hanzi
蕩 pond

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 湯 hot water
  2. 艹 mugwort

How to find 蕩 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “hot water” + “mugwort”. 蕩 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

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