署 — signature, govt office, police station

しょ署 signature

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 13 strokes

U+7F72 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #725 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1349 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

signature
govt office
police station

word

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

署(しょ) sho station 署(しょ) 名(めい) shomei signature 部(ぶ) 署(しょ) busho department 税(ぜい) 務(む) 署(しょ) zeimusho tax office

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

罒 net (top form)

もの者 someone

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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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