# 風 — Wind

Frequency rank 280 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 万 (Ten Thousand), less common than 夫 (Husband).

- On’yomi: ふう、ふ
- Kun’yomi: かぜ、かざ
- Radical: 風 Wind (Kangxi 182)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX
- School grade: 2
- Strokes: 9

The fat grub is bolted into a windowless prison cell and screams into the bars for a year without stopping.

In words:

- 風 かぜ — wind
- 風邪 かぜ — a cold
- お風呂 おふろ — bath

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