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庄

庄 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. 平らか。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

「莊」の行書に由来する略体。「莊」については莊#字源の項目を参照。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

level, in the country, manor, village, hamlet

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ショウ
  • ソ
  • ソウ
  • ホウ
Nanori (used in names)
  • まさ
Other languages
  • 拼音zhuang1
  • 한글jang
  • Hán-ViệtTrang

Basics

Strokes
6 strokes
Radical
廴(えんにょう)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+5E84

Components

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

Composition (IDS): enclosure ⿸广土

Words using this kanji

  • 庄屋しょうや江戸時代、農村部で領主（郡代、代官）の元、村の民政を司った上層の農民。。肝煎。village headman (esp. in the Kansai region)
  • 庄屋拳しょうやけんshōya-ken, kitsune-ken
  • 庄屋券しょうやけんmenko

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(4 results)

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Lookup codes

SKIP
3-3-3
Four Corner
0021.4
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3q3.1
Heisig
2345
Nelson
1500