The kanji 存: meaning, readings and stroke order

存

Meaning: exist, keep
On reading: ソン son、ゾン zon
Kun reading: —
Strokes: 6
Radical: 子 child, seed
Level: Level 6 · grade 6

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: tồn tại, giữ gìn (tồn)
Japanese: そこにあること。とっておく。
Korean: 있다, 보존하다 (존)
Chinese: 存在、保存

Readings, words and example sentences

ソン son · on reading

存そん在ざい
existence, being there
その星の 存そん在ざいがわかりました。
People found out that the star really exists.

ゾン zon · on reading

保ほ存ぞん
keeping, saving
作った品を大切に 保ほ存ぞんします。
I carefully keep the things I made.

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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.