Meanings

Measuring Box, 1.8 Liter

Radicals

十

⿻十？

Stroke 0 / 4

1 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

2 diagonal top-to-bottom

3 horizontal bottom-to-top

4 vertical right-to-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ショウ shou

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

ます masu

12 words total

Other (12 words)

measuring container

tatami "box seat" for four people at sumo, kabuki, etc.

square (shape)

selling by volume (esp. using a traditional wooden masu box)

alcohol (esp. sake) served in a small wooden box

false anemone (Anemonopsis macrophylla)

square framing (in a house, temple, screen, etc.)

break and run out in billiards (9 ball, 8 ball, etc.)

Japanese bugbane (Cimicifuga biternata)

Japanese astilbe (Astilbe japonica)

one shō (approx. 1.8 litres)

one-shō bottle (approx. 1.8 litres)