奨 — exhort, urge, encourage

しょう奨 exhort

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 13 strokes

U+5968 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1445 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #790 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

exhort
urge
encourage

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).

推(すい) 奨(しょう) suishou recommendation 奨(しょう) 励(れい) shourei encouragement 奨(しょう) 学(がく) shougaku scholarship

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

しょう将 leader

おおきい大 big #37

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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.

#37 大 big