咲
咲 — so
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 웃을 소
- Romanization
- so
- English
- smile, laugh, giggle; snicker
- Mandarin
- xiào
- Japanese on'yomi
- ショウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- さ.く -ざき
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,534 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 口 (30, 6 residual)
- Unicode
- U+54B2
Parts that make up 咲
- 口 입 구 벌린 입말하고 먹는 일, 그리고 입 모양의 구멍
- 关 빗장을 지른 문을 줄여 쓴 꼴‘관’ 계열의 소리
How 咲 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 咲 as a ideographic compound involving 口, 关.
Japanese words with 咲
- 返り咲きかえりざき comeback (e.g. in business); reinstatement; second blooming (in a season)
- 遅咲きおそざき blooming late; flowering late; blossoming late
- 早咲きはやざき blooming early; flowering early; blossoming early
- 咲き誇るさきほこる to be in full bloom; to blossom in full glory; to be in fullness of bloom
- 咲き乱れるさきみだれる to bloom in profusion
- 咲くさく to bloom; to flower; to blossom
- 花咲くはなさく to bloom
- 室咲きむろざき hothouse flower cultivation
- 花咲蟹はなさきがに blue king crab
- 桜咲くさくらさく to pass an exam
- 秋咲きあきざき autumn flowering; fall flowering
- 狂い咲きくるいざき off-season flowering
Other hanja read “소”
Other hanja with radical 口
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