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丸 まる、まる.める、まる.い round, full, month, perfection, -ship, pills, make round, roll up, curl up, seduce, explain away 2 542 3 3 てん・ちょぼ・ちゅ・ちゅてん 象形 Pictographic Nine plus a drop rounds it off to ten!

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ガン ま, わ, わに 日の丸(ひのまる): (1) outline of the sun (esp. represented as a red circle) (2) the Japanese flag丸ごと(まるごと): in its entirety; whole; wholly丸める(まるめる): (1) to make round; to roll up; to curl up (2) to seduce; to cajole; to explain away (3) to round off (a fraction) (4) to lump together丸(まる): (1) circle (2) full (e.g. month, day, etc.) (3) perfection; purity (4) suffix for ship names丸っきり(まるっきり): completely; perfectly; just as if丸で(まるで): (1) quite; entirely; completely; at all (2) as if; as though; just like丸々(まるまる): (1) plump; rotund; chubby (2) entirely; completely; wholly 2 九: nine丶: dot; tick or dot radical (no. 3) 丶 1 (none) round Watch out for plump (#120). Here Heisig could have added a "t" and we would have had a much better keyword : rotund. Rotund is more specific than "round" which begs for confusion with circle (#1811). A dictionary search on "fat" or "round" doesn´t yield this kanji, but "rotund" does! Primitive suggestion: the Laughing Buddha is often depicted as a rotund, smiling bald man in robes with a largely exposed pot belly stomach (symbolizing plenitude).

Kanji	丸
Onyomi	ガン
Kunyomi	まる、まる.める、まる.い
Nanori	ま, わ, わに
English	round, full, month, perfection, -ship, pills, make round, roll up, curl up, seduce, explain away
Examples	日の丸(ひのまる): (1) outline of the sun (esp. represented as a red circle) (2) the Japanese flag 丸ごと(まるごと): in its entirety; whole; wholly 丸める(まるめる): (1) to make round; to roll up; to curl up (2) to seduce; to cajole; to explain away (3) to round off (a fraction) (4) to lump together 丸(まる): (1) circle (2) full (e.g. month, day, etc.) (3) perfection; purity (4) suffix for ship names 丸っきり(まるっきり): completely; perfectly; just as if 丸で(まるで): (1) quite; entirely; completely; at all (2) as if; as though; just like 丸々(まるまる): (1) plump; rotund; chubby (2) entirely; completely; wholly
JLPT Level	2
Jouyou Grade	2
Frequency	542
Components	九: nine 丶: dot; tick or dot radical (no. 3)
Number of Strokes	3
Kanji Radical	丶
Radical Number	3
Radical Strokes	1
Radical Reading	てん・ちょぼ・ちゅ・ちゅてん
Traditional Form	(none)
Classification	象形 Pictographic
Keyword	round
Koohii Story 1	Nine plus a drop rounds it off to ten!
Koohii Story 2	Watch out for plump (#120). Here Heisig could have added a "t" and we would have had a much better keyword : rotund. Rotund is more specific than "round" which begs for confusion with circle (#1811). A dictionary search on "fat" or "round" doesn´t yield this kanji, but "rotund" does! Primitive suggestion: the Laughing Buddha is often depicted as a rotund, smiling bald man in robes with a largely exposed pot belly stomach (symbolizing plenitude).

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