| 934 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) | 
| 921 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) | 
| 893 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage | 
| 1402 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) | 
| 1183 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) | 
| 486 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) | 
| 1367 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) | 
| 1454 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) | 
| 1725 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) | 
| 533 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide | 
| 3920 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) | 
| 2021 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) | 
| 2728 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) | 
| 1074 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) | 
| 7798X | Morohashi | 
| 3161 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) | 
| 1432 | New Nelson (John Haig) | 
| 1065 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) | 
| 1146 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) | 
| 977 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) | 
      stratum, social class, layer, story, floor
    
    - On:
- ソウ
      Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
    
    
      JLPT level N2
    
    
      801 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
    
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 層 【ソウ】 layer, stratum, seam, bed, class, stratum, bracket, group, sheaf, counter for stories (of a building)
- 層群 【ソウグン】 (geol) group
- 重層 【ジュウソウ】 multistoried, multilayered
- 高層 【コウソウ】 high-rise (building), multistory, multistoried, tall, high (altitude), upper (atmosphere, air current, etc.)
Readings
- Korean:
- cheung
Spanish
- estrato
- nivel
Portuguese
- estrato
- classe social
- camada
- estória
- andar
French
- strate
- classe sociale
- couche
- étage
| 3778 | 2001 Kanji | 
| 3r11.2 | The Kanji Dictionary | 
| 3-3-11 | SKIP code | 
| 7726.6 | Four corner code | 
| 1-33-56 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code | 
| 5c64 | Unicode hex code |