酸 — acid, bitterness, sour

さん酸 acid

Grade 5 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 14 strokes

U+9178 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1218 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1545 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

acid
bitterness
sour
tart

word

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

酸(さん) san acid 酸(さん) 素(そ) sanso oxygen 酸(さん) 化(か) sanka oxidation 炭(たん) 酸(さん) tansan carbonic acid 二(に) 酸(さん) 化(か) 炭(たん) 素(そ) nisankatanso carbon dioxide アミノ酸(さん) aminosan amino acid 硝(しょう) 酸(さん) shousan nitric acid

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

酉 wine jar

夋 stagger

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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.

#164 酉 wine jar