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壯

壯 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. 雄大。強い。
  2. 若盛りである。
  3. さかんにする。
  4. 働き盛り。
  5. 八月の異名。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「士」+音符「爿」。「（人が）つよい」「さかん」を意味する漢語｛壯｝を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

big, large, robust, name of tribe

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ソウ
Kun (native)
  • さかん
Nanori (used in names)
  • たけし
Other languages
  • 拼音zhuang4
  • 한글jang
  • Hán-ViệtTráng

Basics

Strokes
7 strokes
Radical
士(さむらい)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+58EF

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰爿士

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Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-4-3
Four Corner
2421.0
Spahn–Hadamitzky
2b4.2