Jisho

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4 strokes
Radical:
ten, complete
Parts:
measuring box, 1.8 liter
Kun:
ます
On:
ショウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2077 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 升 【ショウ】 shō, traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 litres
  • 升遷 【ショウセン】 rising up
  • 一升 【イッショウ】 one shō (approx. 1.8 litres)

Kun reading compounds

  • 升 【ます】 measuring container, measuring box, measure, box (seating at a theatre, etc.), square on a grid, cell of a grid, square bearing block (at the top of a pillar)
  • 升売り 【ますうり】 selling by volume (esp. using a traditional wooden masu box)

Readings

Japanese names:
のぼる
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
sheng1
Korean:
seung

Spanish

  • caja para medir
  • unidad de capacidad (1.8 litros)

Portuguese

  • Medida p/ caixa
  • 1.8 litro

French

  • boîte mesure (1,8 litre)
  • boîte
  • cellule (sur une grille)
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0a4.32 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-3 SKIP code
2440.0 Four corner code
1-30-03 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5347 Unicode hex code