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醤

醤 — readings, stroke count and radical

  • Non-Jōyō kanji
  • 17 strokes

Stroke order

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. ひしお。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

「醬」の略体(簡易慣用字体)。音符である「將」を常用漢字の字体「将」に変えたもの。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

a kind of miso

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ショウ
Kun (native)
  • ひしお
Other languages
  • 拼音jiang4
  • 한글jang
  • Hán-ViệtTương

Basics

Strokes
17 strokes
Radical
酉(ひよみのとり)
JIS level
Level 1
Unicode
U+91A4

Components

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

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱将酉

Words using this kanji

  • 醤油しょうゆ調味料の一つ。大豆、小麦、塩を主原料にしてこうじを混ぜ、発酵、熟成させたものを絞ってつくる。黒褐色の調味料。soy sauce, soya sauce, shoyu
  • 醤ひしおpaste similar to miso made from koji mold and salt water, watery mash left over from making soy sauce
  • 醤蝦あみopossum shrimp (Mysida spp.), mysid
  • 醤油皿しょうゆざらsoy sauce dish
  • 醤油粕しょうゆかすsoy sauce lees, soy sauce cake
  • 醤油炒めしょうゆいためfried dish seasoned with soy sauce
  • 醤油ダレしょうゆダレsoy-based sauce
  • 醤油さししょうゆさしsoy sauce bottle, soy sauce dispenser, soy sauce cruet
  • 醤油ラーメンしょうゆラーメンsoy sauce ramen, soy ramen

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

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Similar-looking kanji

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Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
2-10-7
Four Corner
2760.1
Spahn–Hadamitzky
7e11.2
Heisig
2774
Nelson
4801