The kanji 政: meaning, readings and stroke order
政
- Meaning
- government, politics
- On reading
- セイ sei、ショウ* shou
- Kun reading
- まつりごと matsurigoto
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 攴 rap
- Level
- Level 5 · grade 5
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- việc nước, chính trị (chính)
- Japanese
- くにを おさめる こと。
- Korean
- 나라 일, 정치 (정)
- Chinese
- 政治
Readings, words and example sentences
セイ sei · on reading
政治
politics
父は 政治の ニュースを よく 見ます。
My dad often watches news about politics.
まつりごと matsurigoto · kun reading · less common
政
ruling a country (old word)
むかしの 政に ついて 学びます。
We learn about how countries were ruled long ago.
* marks a less common reading, usually learnt from junior high on.
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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.