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The kanji 省: meaning, readings and stroke order
省
- Meaning
- leave out, reflect
- On reading
- セイ sei、ショウ shou
- Kun reading
- かえり（みる） kaerimiru、はぶ（く） habuku
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 目 eye
- Level
- Level 4 · grade 4
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- lược bỏ, tự xét lại (tỉnh)
- Japanese
- はぶく。かえりみる。
- Korean
- 덜다, 돌아보다 (생·성)
- Chinese
- 省略、反省
Readings, words and example sentences
セイ sei · on reading
反省
thinking about what you did wrong
失敗を 反省します。
I think about what I did wrong.
ショウ shou · on reading · less common
文部省
Ministry of Education (old name)
むかしの 文部省の 話です。
This is a story about the old Ministry of Education.
かえり（みる） kaerimiru · kun reading · less common
省みる
to look back on oneself
自分の 行いを 省みます。
I look back on what I have done.
はぶ（く） habuku · kun reading
省く
to leave out, to cut
むだな 部分を 省きます。
I leave out the parts we don't need.
Practise writing 省 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 省 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 4 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.