礎 — cornerstone, foundation stone

そ礎 cornerstone

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 18 strokes

U+790E Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1224 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #421 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

cornerstone
foundation stone

word

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

基(き) 礎(そ) kiso foundation

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

いし石 stone #112

楚 whip

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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