Vocabulary
ぼうようほろう亡羊補牢 ぼうようほろう亡羊補牢 ぼうようほろう亡羊補牢

Meaning

locking the barn door after the horse has bolted doing something too late and mending the pen after the sheep are lost

Practice Writing

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Component Analysis

亡羊補牢
locking the barn door after the horse has bolted, doing something too late, mending the pen after the sheep are lost
ぼうようほろう
亡
deceased, the late, dying...
な.い, な.き-, ボウ
亠
kettle lid radical (no. 8)
トウ
匸
( 匚 ) hiding enclosure radical (no. 23)
ケイ
匸
( 匚 ) hiding enclosure radical (no. 23)
ケイ
羊
sheep
ひつじ, ヨウ
䒑
grass, straw, herbs...
補
supplement, supply, make good...
おぎな.う, ホ
衤
( 衣 ) clothes, clothing radical (no. 145
ころも
甫
for the first time, not until
はじ.めて, ホ, フ
用
utilize, business, service...
もち.いる, ヨウ
丶
dot, tick or dot radical (no. 3)
チュ
牢
prison, jail, hardness
かた.い, ひとや, ロウ
宀
shaped crown, katakana u radical (no. 40)
ベン, メン
冖
wa-shaped crown radical (no. 14)
ベキ
牛
cow
うし, ギュウ
書

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