The kanji 司: meaning, readings and stroke order

司

Meaning: be in charge
On reading: シ shi
Kun reading: —
Strokes: 5
Radical: 口 mouth, opening
Level: Level 4 · grade 4

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: phụ trách, dẫn dắt (tư)
Japanese: とりしきる。まとめるやく。
Korean: 맡다, 이끌다 (사)
Chinese: 主持、掌管

Readings, words and example sentences

シ shi · on reading

司し会かい
leading a meeting, host
学級会の 司し会かいをします。
I lead the class meeting.

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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.