昭 — shining, bright

しょう昭 shining

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 9 strokes

U+662D Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #697 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #91 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

shining
bright

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).

昭(しょう) shou bright 昭(しょう) 和(わ) shouwa Showa (era)

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

ひ日 sun #72

めす召 seduce

Used as component in (1)

てらす照 illuminate

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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.

#72 日 sun