宙
Stroke order
Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Meaning
mid-air, air, space, sky, memorization, interval of time
English glosses from KANJIDIC2.
Readings
- On (Sino-Japanese)
- チュウElem.
- Nanori (used in names)
- ひろ
- ゆ
- Other languages
- 拼音zhou4
- 한글ju
- Hán-ViệtTrụ
Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.
Basics
- Strokes
- 8 strokes
- Radical
- 寸(すん)
- JIS level
- Level 1
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 2
- Unicode
U+5B99
Components
Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.
Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱宀由
Words using this kanji
- 宙ちゅうspace, air, midair, (from) memory
- 宙返りちゅうがえり空中で体を回転させること。 空中で飛行機が垂直方向に円を描くように飛行すること。somersault, looping-the-loop
- 宙吊りちゅうづり上から吊るされ空中にぶらさがった状態になること。 歌舞伎の演出である「宙乗り」の関西での呼び方。hanging in midair, suspended in midair, midair stunt, aerial stunt
- 宙乗りちゅうのり歌舞伎で役者の体を天井からワイヤーなどで吊るして移動させる演出。関西では「宙吊り」と呼ばれる。midair stunt, aerial stunts
- 宙域ちゅういきsector (of space)
- 宙空ちゅうくう(in) the air, midair, sky, (empty) space
- 宙に浮くちゅうにうくto float in the air, to be unfinished, to be unsettled, to be undecided
- 宙に舞うちゅうにまうto tumble through the air
- 宙を飛ぶちゅうをとぶto fly through the air, to run so fast that one's feet barely touch the ground
- 宙ぶらりんちゅうぶらりんdangling, hanging, suspended, pending
- 宙吊り議会ちゅうづりぎかいhung parliament
Words starting with this kanji, most common first.
Lookup codes
- SKIP
2-3-5- Four Corner
3060.2- Spahn–Hadamitzky
3m5.5- Heisig
- 1190
- Nelson
- 1291