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I Direction Perfume 芳 ホウ かんば.しい お かおる

Kanji
Onyomi ホウ
Kunyomi かんば.しい
Nanori お, かおる, は, ほ, みち, やす, よし
English perfume, balmy, flavorable, fragrant
JLPT Level 1
Jouyou Grade S
Frequency 1302
Components 艸: grass; plants; grass radical (no. 140)
方: direction; person; alternative
Number of Strokes 7
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 140
Radical Strokes 6
Radical Reading くさ・くさかんむり
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 形声 Phonetic
Keyword perfumed
Koohii Story 1 She used a perfume so strong, that you can track her by following the direction of the smell of flowers.
Koohii Story 2 People always seem to overdo it with their perfume. It seems that whenever I am at school, somebody walks by with their cheap flowery perfume. If I close my eyes, I can actually use that floweriness as a compass - it tells me which direction they´re in.
RTK Index 493

Tags: jlpt.n1, grades, kanjifreq1001-1500, kanji_emotion.sense_sense

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