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嬢

嬢 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. 煩わす。
  2. 肥大。
  3. 女の子の名前の下に添えて尊敬の意を表す語。女の子の尊称。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

「孃」の略体。「孃」については孃#字源の項目を参照。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

lass, girl, Miss, daughter

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ジョウJHS
Kun (native)
  • むすめ
Other languages
  • 拼音niang2
  • 한글yang
  • Hán-ViệtNương

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
16 strokes
Radical
子(こ)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+5B22

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰女㐮

Words using this kanji

  • 嬢じょう女性、特に若い女性。 風俗嬢。 （じょん）女の子。unmarried woman, Miss, -ess, -ette
  • 嬢さんとうさんdaughter (of a good family)
  • 嬢さんじょうさん(another's) daughter, young lady (esp. of respectable upbringing)
  • 嬢ちゃんじょうちゃんyoung girl, young lady

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(32 results)

Similar-looking kanji

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Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-3-13
Four Corner
4043.2
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3e13.1
Heisig
1650
Nelson
1257