The kanji 剰: meaning, readings and stroke order
剰
- Meaning
- surplus, excess
- On reading
- ジョウ jou
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 刀 knife, sword
- Level
- Level 9 · senior high school
- Old form
- 剩
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- dư thừa (thặng)
- Japanese
- あまる。よけいな。
- Korean
- 남다, 나머지 (잉)
- Chinese
- 剩余、过剩 (剩)
Readings, words and example sentences
ジョウ jou · on reading · less common
余剰
surplus, extra
余剰の 分は 返します。
We give back whatever is left over.
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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.