宗 — religion, sect, denomination

しゅう宗 religion

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes religion

U+5B97 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #997 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1181 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

religion
sect
denomination
main point
origin
essence

word

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

宗(しゅう) shuu sect 宗(しゅう) 教(きょう) shuukyou religion 宗(しゅう) 派(は) shuuha sect

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

宀 roof

しめす示 show #113

Used as component in (2)

すう崇 adore そう踪 remains

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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.

#40 宀 roof