Kanji · JLPT N5 · Level 4
父 father
- Meaning
- father
- On reading
- フ
- Kun reading
- ちち
Memory hook
Two crossed strokes over two legs: a hand gripping an axe, the one who does the heavy work. フ in compounds. お父さん otōsan for someone else's father, ちち for your own.
Words that use 父
父
ちち
my father
お父さん
おとうさん
father
How to write 父
Stroke order · 4 strokes
1
2
3
4
- 1. The sweep down to the left.
- 2. The diagonal down to the right.
- 3. The sweep down to the left.
- 4. The diagonal down to the right.
Stroke data from KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
General rules
- Top to bottom, left to right.
- Horizontal strokes before crossing vertical ones (十 = horizontal, then vertical).
- Outside before inside - but close a box last (口).
- A vertical that passes all the way through comes last (中).
- Left-falling diagonal before right-falling (大).
父 is taught on day 19 of the kanji course, alongside 母 兄 弟, with two writing passes and a short quiz.