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JLPT N2 SL6 14 strokes Frequency: #801

Meanings

Stratum, Social Class, Layer, Story, Floor

Radicals

尸

Decomposition

⿸尸曾

Etymology

Pictophonetic: body

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 14

Stroke Order

1 corner right-to-left

2 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

3 diagonal top-to-bottom

4 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

5 diagonal right-to-left

6 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

7 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

8 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

9 horizontal bottom-to-top

10 horizontal bottom-to-top

11 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

12 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

13 horizontal bottom-to-top

14 horizontal bottom-to-top

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ソウ sou

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

No common kun'yomi readings

Words Using This Kanji

278 words total

Other (20 words)

上層風じょうそうふう

winds aloft

上層じょうそう

upper stratum (classes, stories, storeys)

上層建築じょうそうけんちく

superstructure

上層階級じょうそうかいきゅう

upper classes

深層しんそう

depths

真珠層しんじゅそう

mother-of-pearl

成層圏せいそうけん

stratosphere

層状そうじょう

stratified

layer

層雲そううん

stratus

多層たそう

multilayer

大層たいそう

very

炭層たんそう

coal seam

断層だんそう

fault

地層ちそう

stratum

低層ていそう

low-rise (architecture)

電離層でんりそう

ionosphere

読者層どくしゃそう

readership

内層ないそう

inner layers

沖積層ちゅうせきそう

alluvium

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