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聲

聲 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. こえ。
  2. おと。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「耳」 + 音符「殸」。「こえ」を意味する漢語｛聲｝を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

sound, voice, noise, tone, music

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • セイ
  • ショウ
Kun (native)
  • こえ
  • こわ〜
Other languages
  • 拼音sheng1
  • 한글seong
  • Hán-ViệtThanh

Basics

Strokes
17 strokes
Radical
耳(みみ)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+8072

Components

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

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱殸耳

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Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
2-11-6
Four Corner
4740.1
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3p4.4
Nelson
3712