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Rice Stirred St Bernard 奮 フン ふる.う Invigorated

Kanji
Onyomi フン
Kunyomi ふる.う
English stirred up, be invigorated, flourish
Examples 興奮(こうふん): excitement; stimulation; agitation; arousal
奮闘(ふんとう): hard struggle; strenuous effort
JLPT Level 1
Jouyou Grade 6
Frequency 1521
Components 大: large; big
隹: bird; old bird radical (no. 172)
田: rice field; rice paddy
Number of Strokes 16
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 37
Radical Strokes 3
Radical Reading だい・おおきい
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 会意 Compound Ideographic
Keyword stirred up
Koohii Story 1 The St. Bernard dog pounces on a turkey in a rice field and stirs up all the other birds around. See them all gobble gobbling in fear?
Koohii Story 2 Gruesome, but it makes it easy to remember. Here goes: The St. Bernard stirred up a crowd of turkeys and caught one. It bit the head, brains spilling onto the rice field.

Tags: jlpt.n1, grade6, kanjifreq1501-2000

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