笙 — readings, stroke count and radical

brushStroke order

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

brushOrigin of the character

形声。「竹」+音符「生」。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

menu_bookMeaning

a reed instrument

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

menu_bookReadings

On (Sino-Japanese)

• ショウ
• ソウ

Kun (native)

• ふえ

Other languages

• 拼音sheng1
• 한글saeng
• Hán-ViệtSanh

infoBasics

Strokes

11 strokes

Radical

竹(たけ)

JIS level

Level 2

JLPT (old scale)

Level 1

Unicode

U+7B19

grid_viewComponents

• 𠂉かのかんむり
• 生うまれる
• 竹たけ

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

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱𥫗生

menu_bookWords using this kanji

• 笙しょう（ショウ）雅楽の管楽器。traditional Japanese wind instrument resembling panpipes, free-reed instrument used in Japanese court music
• 笙歌しょうか笙の曲に合わせて歌を歌うこと。また、その歌。singing and playing the shō
• 笙の笛しょうのふえshō (Japanese free reed musical instrument)

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(4 results)

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Selected automatically by comparing composition (IDS). “Same composition” means the parts and their arrangement match.

infoLookup codes

SKIP

2-6-5

Four Corner

8810.4

Spahn–Hadamitzky

6f5.4

Heisig

2672

Nelson

3377