English: universal wide(ly) generally Prussia	On-Yomi: フ	Kun-Yomi: あまね.く あまねし しん ひろ

Bushu (Radical) Info:
八 (はちがしら) – eight
日 (にち) – sun

Levels: JLPT N2 | JLPT 2 (old) | Grade 8
Frequency: #757 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:

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JLPT N4 Words

• 普通   [ふつう]
  (adj-na,adj-no,adv,n) (1) generally; ordinarily; usually; (2) train that stops at every station   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N3 Words

• 普段   [ふだん]
  (adj-no,adj-na,n-adv,n) usually; habitually; ordinarily; always   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N2 Words

• 普及   [ふきゅう]
  (n,vs) diffusion; spread   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N1 Words

• 普遍   [ふへん]
  (adj-na,n) universality; ubiquity; omnipresence   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT

• 普   [ふ]
  (n) widely; generally   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 普賢   [ふげん]
  (n) Samantabhadra (bodhisattva); Universal Compassion   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 普段着   [ふだんぎ]
  (n) casual wear; ordinary clothes; everyday clothes; home wear   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 普通選挙   [ふつうせんきょ]
  universal suffrage   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 普通預金   [ふつうよきん]
  ordinary bank account   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 普遍的   [ふへんてき]
  (adj-na) universal; omnipresent; ubiquitous   [K] [D] [Jisho]

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Acknowledgments

The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.

NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.

The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.

Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.

The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.

If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.