Hanja Analyzer
曽

曽 — jeung

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

This is the Japanese glyph form. The Korean form is 曾.

Korean reading
일찍 증
Romanization
jeung
English
already; sign of past
Mandarin
cēng
Japanese on'yomi
ソウ, ソ
Japanese kun'yomi
かつ かつて すなわち
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#1,320 of 2,500
Strokes
11
Variant forms
曾
Radical
日 (72, 7 residual)
Unicode
U+66FD

Japanese words with 曽

  • 曽祖父そうそふ great-grandfather; great-granddad; great-grandad
  • 白檜曽しらびそ Veitch's silver fir (Abies veitchii)
  • 木曽馬きそうま Kiso horse (Japanese indigenous horse breed); kisouma
  • 木曽路きそじ Kiso valley section of the Nakasendo
  • 大白檜曽おおしらびそ Maries' fir (Abies mariesii)
  • 曽祖父母そうそふぼ great-grandparents
  • 曽我物語そがものがたり Soga Monogatari (war chronicle)
  • 伊曽保物語いそほものがたり Aesop's Fables (published initially by the Jesuits in 1593)

Other hanja read “증”

Other hanja with radical 日

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