Kanji 曽

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Radical: (12)
Strokes: 11
Stroke order
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On:
ソウ、ソ、ゾウ
sou, so, zou
Kun:
かつ、かつて、すなわち
katsu, katsute, sunawachi
Reading in names:
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Meanings:
formerly, once, before, ever, never, ex-
прежде
Grade: 8
JLPT: 1
Phonetic: (ソウ、ゾウ)
Kanji shape: idc
Kanji elements: , ,
Variants:

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Mnemonic phrases

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Examples

ひい
hii
great (i.e. great-grandson, great-grandmother)
曾祖父
そうそふ
soosofu
great-grandfather;great-granddad;great-grandad
прадед; прадед, прадедушка
曾祖母
そうそぼ
soosobo
great-grandmother;great-grandma
прабабушка; прабабка, прабабушка
未曾有
みぞう
mizou
unprecedented;unheard-of;record-breaking
(см.) みそう
曾孫
ひまご
himago
great-grandchild
правнук; правнук, правнучка; (см.) ひいまご
曽祖父母
そうそふぼ
soosofubo
great-grandparents
木曽馬
きそうま
kisooma
var. of horse raised in Nagano and Gifu
木曽路
きそじ
kisoji
section of the Nakasendo
鬢削ぎ
びんそぎ
binsogi
cutting a person's sidelocks;evenly cut sidelocks (symbol of adulthood for noblewomen in the Heian era);ritual of cutting the sidelocks (coming-of-age ceremony for women from about 1568-1867)

Reading in other languages

Korean:
Korean (latin): jeung
Pinyin: ceng2, zeng1
Vietnam: Tằng, Từng

Encoding

DECIMAL: 26365
HEX: 66FD
JIS_LEVEL: 1
MINKUTEN: 1-33-30
UTF16: 66FD
UTF8: E6 9B BD

Dictionary indexes

Gakken Kanji Dictionary ("A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage"): 1482
Japanese Names (P.G. O'Neill): 1477
Kanji Learners Dictionary (Jack Halpern, 2 edition, 2013): 1823
Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern, 2013): 2632
Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette): 513
Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig): 501
Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig, 6 edition): 540
The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary (John Haig): 2464
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Total kanji: 13136
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