Jisho

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13 strokes (also 14)
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
blue, pale
Kun:
あお.い
On:
ソウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2276 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 蒼鉛 【ソウエン】 bismuth
  • 滄海 【ソウカイ】 the blue sea, blue waters
  • 蒼々 【ソウソウ】 blue (sky, ocean, etc.), fresh and green (of vegetation), verdant, lush, greying (hair), aged
  • 穹蒼 【キュウソウ】 dome of the sky, vault of heaven

Kun reading compounds

  • 青い 【あおい】 blue, azure, green, pale (facial color), gray, grey, unripe, inexperienced

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cang1
Korean:
chang

Spanish

  • azúl
  • pálido

Portuguese

French

4025 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1988 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2225 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2943 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1512 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2050 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
31627X Morohashi
2507 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5162 New Nelson (John Haig)
2399 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2479 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k10.22 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-10 SKIP code
2-4-10 SKIP code
4460.7 Four corner code
1-33-83 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
84bc Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
cave
Parts:
Variants:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 穹蒼 【キュウソウ】 dome of the sky, vault of heaven
  • 穹窿 【キュウリュウ】 vault of heaven, vaulted sky, dome, vault, arch
  • 蒼穹 【ソウキュウ】 blue sky

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qiong1, qiong2
Korean:
gung

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3315 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
948 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2768 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1914 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
25414 Morohashi
4190 New Nelson (John Haig)
3m5.10 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-5 SKIP code
3020.7 Four corner code
1-67-54 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7a79 Unicode hex code