Hanja Analyzer
緒

緒 — seo

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

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

Korean reading
실마리 서
Romanization
seo
English
end of thread; thread
Mandarin
xù
Japanese on'yomi
ショ, チョ, シャ
Japanese kun'yomi
お いとぐち
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#952 of 2,500
Strokes
14
Variant forms
緖
Radical
糸 (120, 8 residual)
Unicode
U+7DD2

Parts that make up 緒

  • 糸 실 사, 가는실 멱 꼬아 놓은 실타래실·천·끈, 그리고 잇고 매는 일
  • 者 놈 자 줄기가 무성한 사탕수수‘자·저·도·서’ 계열의 소리

How 緒 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 緒 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 糸, 者.

Japanese words with 緒

  • 一緒いっしょ (doing) together; one lump; one mixture
  • 緒お cord; strap; thong
  • 情緒じょうちょ emotion; feeling; atmosphere
  • 端緒たんしょ start; beginning; first step
  • 由緒ゆいしょ history; pedigree; lineage
  • 緒戦しょせん beginning of hostilities; beginning of competition; first match (in a series)
  • 情緒障害じょうちょしょうがい (suffering) an emotional disturbance
  • 内緒ないしょ secrecy; confidentiality; privacy
  • 一緒にいっしょに together (with); at the same time; in one lump
  • 下緒さげお cord for attaching a sword scabbard tightly to the obi; sword strap; sword knot
  • 緒作しょさく various works
  • 鼻緒はなお sandal strap; geta strap

Other hanja read “서”

Other hanja with radical 糸

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