装 — attire, dress, pretend

そう装 attire

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 12 strokes technology

U+88C5 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #657 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #425 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

attire
dress
pretend
disguise
profess

word

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

装(そう) sou attire 装(そう) 置(ち) souchi device 装(そう) 備(び) soubi equipment 武(ぶ) 装(そう) busou armament 実(じっ) 装(そう) jissou implementation 服(ふく) 装(そう) fukusou attire 装(そう) 着(ちゃく) souchaku equipping 内(ない) 装(そう) naisou interior design

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).

衣(い) 装(しょう) ishou costume

よそお yosoo Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

装(よそお) う yosoou to dress up

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

そう壮 robust

ころも衣 garment #145

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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.

#145 衣 clothes