乘 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. のる。
  2. 機会を利用する。
  3. 掛け算。
  4. (古用法)四頭立戦車を数える数詞。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

会意。人が樹上に乗るさまを象る。「のる」「のぼる」を意味する漢語{乘}を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

power, multiplication, record, counter for vehicles

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ジョウ
Kun (native)
  • の(る)
  • の(せる)
Other languages
  • 拼音cheng2
  • 拼音sheng4
  • 한글seung
  • Hán-ViệtThừa
  • Hán-ViệtThặng

Basics

Strokes
10 strokes
Radical
丿(の)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+4E58

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): overlapping ⿻乖人

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
4-10-3
Four Corner
2090.1
Spahn–Hadamitzky
0a9.19
Nelson
225