Jisho

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14 strokes
Radical:
brush 聿 (⺻)
Parts:
Variants:
beginning
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1943 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 肇国 【チョウコク】 founding of a state
  • 肇歳 【チョウサイ】 beginning of the year

Readings

Japanese names:
とし、 ただし、 はつ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhao4
Korean:
jo

Spanish

  • comienzo
  • apertura

Portuguese

French

3723 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1968 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
2222 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2204 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3474 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1791 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2439 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
29228X Morohashi
2799 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4751 New Nelson (John Haig)
2893 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2902 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4m10.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-6 SKIP code
3850.7 Four corner code
1-40-05 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8087 Unicode hex code