将 — leader, commander, general

しょう将 leader

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 10 strokes war

U+5C06 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #634 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #789 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

leader
commander
general
admiral
or
and again
soon
from now on
just about

Readings

On'yomi: しょう shou そう sou
Kun'yomi: まさ masa はた hata ひきい hikii もって motte

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).

将(しょう) shou general 将(しょう) 来(らい) shourai future 将(しょう) 軍(ぐん) shougun general 大(たい) 将(しょう) taishou general 将(しょう) 校(こう) shoukou military officer 将(しょう) 棋(ぎ) shougi shogi

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

丬 split wood (left form)

爫 claw (top form)

すん寸 inch #41

Used as component in (1)

しょう奨 exhort

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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.

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