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The kanji 曽: meaning, readings and stroke order
曽
- Meaning
- formerly, great-grand-
- On reading
- ソウ sou、ゾ* zo
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 曰 say
- Level
- Level 10 · the last years of senior high
- Old form
- 曾
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- đã từng, đời cụ (tằng)
- Japanese
- むかし。おじいさんの おやの だい。
- Korean
- 예전에, 증조 (증)
- Chinese
- 曾经、曾祖 (曾)
Readings, words and example sentences
ソウ sou · on reading · less common
曽祖父
great-grandfather
曽祖父の 写真が 残って います。
We still have a photo of my great-grandfather.
* marks a less common reading, usually learnt from junior high on.
Practise writing 曽 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 曽 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 10 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
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.