Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
sun, day
Parts:
prosperous, bright, clear
Kun:
さかん
On:
ショウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1372 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 昌運 【ショウウン】 prosperity, fortune
  • 昌泰 【ショウタイ】 Shōtai era (898.4.26-901.7.15)
  • 隆昌 【リュウショウ】 prosperity
  • 南昌 【ナンショウ】 Nanchang (China)

Readings

Japanese names:
まさ、 まさし、 よし、 あき、 あきら、 さかえ、 あつ、 すけ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chang1
Korean:
chang

Spanish

  • claro
  • próspero
  • brillante

Portuguese

French

  • prospère
  • brillant
  • clair
1552 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2105 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1950 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
715 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2089 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3069 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1564 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2140 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
25 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
13803 Morohashi
2414 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2428 New Nelson (John Haig)
25 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
25 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4c4.4 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-4 SKIP code
6060.0 Four corner code
1-30-27 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
660c Unicode hex code