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蕃 = 番 + 艹

蕃 is a Japanese kanji written with 15 strokes, listed here under the keyword “grow wild”. It is built from 番 (turn) and 艹 (mugwort). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 2464.

Keyword
grow wild
RTK frame
2464
Strokes
15
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
バン, ハン
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
grow luxuriously, дикий
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
蕃 foreign things

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 番 turn
  2. 艹 mugwort

How to find 蕃 without knowing its reading

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

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