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豊富
ほうふ
- flat (heiban)
- head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
abundance, plenty
“Abundance” arrived from written Chinese, and is first attested in Japanese in the 1830s.
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In a sentence
食物は豊富にある。
We have food in abundance.
食べ物は豊富にある。
We have food in abundance.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “Ultimately from written Chinese 豐富 /丰富 (fēngfù). First attested in Japanese in the 1830s.”
Source: Wiktionary: 豊富 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
Other readings of 豊富 on the same Wiktionary page
These describe other words written the same way, not ほうふ. They are quoted for context: the parts, layer and processes of this word are not taken from them.
とよとみ
- “Compound of 豊(とよ) (toyo-, “bounteous, ample”) + 富(と)み (tomi, “riches”, the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 富(と)む (tomu, “to become rich”)).”
- “Also analyzable as a shift in reading from the regular on'yomi of hōfu to the expected kun'yomi for these same characters.”
- “The town was officially named Toyotomi in 1940, but the area had that name earlier, likely from some time in the late 1800s or early 1900s.”
- “See also Toyotomi, Hokkaido on Wikipedia.Wikipedia”
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.