曽
Readings
Kana:
ソウ、ソ、ゾウ、かつ、かつて、すなわち
Romaji:
sou, so, zou, katsu, katsute, sunawachi
Meanings
formerly, once, before, ever, never, ex-
Stroke Diagram
Kanji Info
Stroke Count:
11
Radical Number:
12
Frequency:
1320
Grade:
8
Skip Pattern:
2-2-9
Korean Reading:
jeung
Chinese Reading:
zeng1
Unicode:
66fd
JIS:
413E
Indexes
New Nelson Index: 2464
Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 2o9.3
Four Corner Index: 8060.6
Gakken Index: 1482
Japanese Names Index: 1477
Remembering the kanji Index: 501
2013 Kanji Learners Index: 1823
French Remembering the Kanji Index: 513
Remembering the Kanji 6th Index: 540
Kodansha Kanji Index: 2632
Words
曾
(ひい、ひ、そう)
great (i.e. great-grandson, great-grandmother)
曾孫
(ひまご、そうそん、ひいまご、ひこ、ひひこ、ひこまご)
great-grandchild
曾祖父
(そうそふ、ひいじじ、ひじじ、ひおおじ)
great-grandfather; great-granddad; great-grandad
木曽馬
(きそうま)
var. of horse raised in Nagano and Gifu
鬢削ぎ
(びんそぎ)
cutting a person's sidelocks; evenly cut sidelocks (symbol of adulthood for noblewomen in the Heian era); ritual of cutting the sidelocks (coming-of-age ceremony for women from about 1568-1867)