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篠

篠 — so

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
조릿대 소
Romanization
so
English
dwarf bamboo; diminutive in person's name
Mandarin
xiǎo
Japanese on'yomi
ショウ
Japanese kun'yomi
しの ささ すず
Japanese usage
Jinmeiyō kanji
Newspaper frequency
#1,556 of 2,500
Strokes
16
Variant forms
筱
Radical
竹 (118, 10 residual)
Unicode
U+7BE0

Parts that make up 篠

  • 竹 대 죽 잎이 처진 대나무 둘대나무와 대로 엮은 것, 글 적는 물건
  • 條 가지 조

How 篠 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 篠 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 竹, 條.

Japanese words with 篠

  • 篠しの thin-culmed dwarf bamboo (growing in clusters); Japanese transverse bamboo flute (high-pitched; usu. with seven holes); sliver (strand of loose fibers)
  • 篠竹しのだけ bamboo grass; bamboo
  • 篠笹しのざさ bamboo grass; bamboo
  • 篠笛しのぶえ Japanese transverse bamboo flute (high-pitched; usu. with seven holes)
  • 篠原しのはら field of bamboo grass
  • 篠突くしのつく to pelt down (of rain); to pour
  • 篠懸衣すずかけごろも hemp over-garment worn by Shugendō practitioners
  • 篠突く雨しのつくあめ pelting rain; pouring rain; driving rain
  • 篠を突くしのをつく to pour (of rain); to pound down
  • 長篠の戦いながしののたたかい Battle of Nagashino (1575)
  • アメリカ篠懸の木アメリカすずかけのき American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis)

Other hanja read “소”

Other hanja with radical 竹

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