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碩

碩 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. おおきい。
  2. すぐれる。ひいでる。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「頁」+音符「石」。「（頭が）おおきい」を意味する漢語｛碩｝を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

large, great, eminent

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • セキ
Kun (native)
  • おお(きい)
Other languages
  • 拼音shuo4
  • 拼音shi2
  • 한글seog
  • Hán-ViệtThạc

Basics

Strokes
14 strokes
Radical
石(いし)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+78A9

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰石頁

Words using this kanji

  • 碩学せきがく学問が広く、深いこと。また、そのような人。博学。great scholar, profound scholar
  • 碩儒せきじゅ(Confucian) scholar
  • 碩老せきろうwise and learned elder

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(3 results)

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-5-9
Four Corner
1168.6
Spahn–Hadamitzky
5a9.1
Heisig
2639
Nelson
3207