哺 means “nurse, suckle”

ほ · ho

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

はぐくむ, ふくむ

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ホ

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 10 strokes

The story

A mouth (口) beside 甫, the part 捕 and 補 share: picture a tiny mouth reaching for milk. 哺 lives in 哺乳, feeding at the breast: 哺乳類 are mammals, the milk-fed animals, and 哺乳瓶 is a baby's bottle.

Used in 哺乳類 (honyuurui, mammals) and 哺乳瓶 (honyuubin, baby bottle)

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.