The kanji 僧: meaning, readings and stroke order
僧
- Meaning
- monk
- On reading
- ソウ sou
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 人 man, human
- Level
- Level 7 · junior high school
- Old form
- 僧
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- nhà sư (tăng)
- Japanese
- おぼうさん。
- Korean
- 스님 (승)
- Chinese
- 僧人、和尚
Readings, words and example sentences
ソウ sou · on reading
僧りょ
Buddhist monk
寺の 僧りょに 話を 聞きます。
I listen to what the monk at the temple has to say.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.