商 — commerce, trade, merchant

しょう商 commerce

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 11 strokes math business

U+5546 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #413 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #456 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

commerce
trade
merchant

word

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).

商(しょう) shou commerce 商(しょう) 品(ひん) shouhin product 商(しょう) 店(てん) shouten shop 商(しょう) 売(ばい) shoubai business 商(しょう) 業(ぎょう) shougyou commerce 商(しょう) 工(こう) shoukou commerce and industry 商(しょう) 社(しゃ) shousha trading company 通(つう) 商(しょう) tsuushou commerce

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

たつ立 stand #117

冏 bright window

はち八 eight #12

冂 upside-down box

くち口 mouth #30

Compound ideograph (会意). Contains 口 (mouth) within a form originally depicting a platform. Commerce — negotiation through speech.

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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