The kanji 祝: meaning, readings and stroke order
祝
- Meaning
- celebrate
- On reading
- シュク shuku、シュウ* shuu
- Kun reading
- いわ(う) iwau
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 示 sign
- Level
- Level 4 · grade 4
- Old form
- 祝
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- chúc mừng (chúc)
- Japanese
- いわう。
- Korean
- 축하하다 (축)
- Chinese
- 庆祝、祝贺
Readings, words and example sentences
シュク shuku · on reading
祝日
national holiday
明日は 祝日で 学校が 休みです。
Tomorrow is a holiday, so there is no school.
いわ(う) iwau · kun reading
祝う
to celebrate
みんなで たん生日を 祝います。
We all celebrate a birthday together.
* 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.