Meaning & readings
stirred up, be invigorated, flourish
On’yomi フン
Kun’yomi ふる.う
Origin
This character combines the idea of vigorous movement with the image of a field. The top component suggests energetic action or stirring, while the bottom component is a picture of a rice field, a place of productive work. Together, these parts create the sense of being stirred up with energy and activity, like the bustling work that happens in a field during harvest or planting season. Over time, this visual idea of energetic movement and activity came to mean being invigorated or flourishing more broadly.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).
Components
- 奞
- 田
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 16
- Kangxi radical
- 37
- Grade
- Grade 6 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #1521 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+0596E