Kanji 物

音読おんよみ: ブツ・モツ

訓読くんよみ: もの

画数かくすう: 8

部首ぶしゅ: うしへん（牛）

Meaning

Thing / Object / Matter

  • 食べ物たべもの — food
  • 買い物かいもの — shopping
  • 生物せいぶつ — living creature
  • 物体ぶったい — object, body
  • 物語ものがたり — story
  • 物質ぶっしつ — substance, matter
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  • 異物いぶつ — foreign substance
  • 貨物かもつ — cargo
  • 見物けんぶつ — sightseeing
  • 好物こうぶつ — favorite food
  • 書物しょもつ — book(s)
  • 名物めいぶつ — famous product; specialty

物 combines the radical 牛 (うし, cow) with 勿, indicating a phonetic element. The character originally referred to something tangible, such as livestock, and later came to mean "thing" more broadly. It's an essential kanji in daily life and appears in many common compounds like 食べ物 and 買い物.

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