The kanji 層: meaning, readings and stroke order
層
- Meaning
- layer
- On reading
- ソウ sou
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 尸 corpse
- Level
- Level 6 · grade 6
- Old form
- 層
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- tầng, lớp (tầng)
- Japanese
- かさなった もの。
- Korean
- 층
- Chinese
- 层
Readings, words and example sentences
ソウ sou · on reading
地層
layers of rock and earth
がけに 地層が 見えます。
You can see layers of rock on the cliff.
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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.