衝 — collide, brunt, highway

しょう衝 collide

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 15 strokes

U+885D Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #972 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1811 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

collide
brunt
highway
opposition
thrust
pierce
stab
prick

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).

衝(しょう) 撃(げき) shougeki shock 衝(しょう) 突(とつ) shoutotsu collision 衝(しょう) 動(どう) shoudou impulse 折(せっ) 衝(しょう) sesshou negotiation

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

いく行 go #144

じゅう重 heavy

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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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