泊

音読おんよみ: ハク

訓読くんよみ: とまる・とめる

画数かくすう: 8

部首ぶしゅ: さんずい（氵）

Meaning

Overnight Stay / Lodge

Conjugation
Tap for 泊まる (stay over) Tap for 泊める (let stay)
  • 宿泊しゅくはく — lodging; overnight stay
  • 一泊いっぱく — one night’s stay
  • 連泊れんぱく — staying multiple nights
  • 泊とまる — to stay overnight; to lodge
  • 泊とめる — to let someone stay over

With the water radical 氵さんずい on the left, 泊 evokes water where something stays in place — like a boat tied up for the night. That sense of “stopping on the water” extends to staying overnight at an inn.

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