硝 — nitrate, saltpeter

しょう硝 nitrate

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 12 strokes

U+785D Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #2154 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #120 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

nitrate
saltpeter

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).

硝(しょう) 酸(さん) shousan nitric acid

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

いし石 stone #112

しょう肖 resemblance

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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.

#112 石 stone