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薯

薯 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

This stroke order diagram is drawn with 17 strokes; it can differ from the count above because the sources use slightly different glyph shapes.

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. いも。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「艸」+音符「署」。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

potato

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ショ
Kun (native)
  • いも
Other languages
  • 拼音shu3
  • 한글seo
  • Hán-ViệtThự

Basics

Strokes
16 strokes
Radical
艸(くさ)
JIS level
Level 1
Unicode
U+85AF

Components

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

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱艹署

Words using this kanji

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(10 results)

Lookup codes

SKIP
2-3-13
Four Corner
4460.3
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3k14.3
Heisig
2451
Nelson
4080