召 — summon, call, send for

めす召 summon

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 5 strokes

U+53EC Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1540 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #90 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

summon
call
send for
wear
put on
ride in
eat (honorific)
drink (honorific)

Readings

On'yomi: しょう shou
Kun'yomi: め me

word

め me Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

召(め) す mesu to call

しょう shou On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

召(しょう) 集(しゅう) shoushuu convocation

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

かたな刀 sword #18

くち口 mouth #30

Used as component in (6)

しょう昭 shining まねく招 beckon こえる超 transcend しょう紹 introduce ぬま沼 marsh しょう詔 imperial edict

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#30 口 mouth