The kanji 祥: meaning, readings and stroke order
祥
- Meaning
- good omen, lucky
- On reading
- ショウ shou
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 示 sign
- Level
- Level 9 · senior high school
- Old form
- 祥
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- điềm lành, may mắn (tường)
- Japanese
- めでたい しるし。
- Korean
- 상서롭다, 좋은 징조 (상)
- Chinese
- 吉祥、祥瑞
Readings, words and example sentences
ショウ shou · on reading · less common
不祥事
scandal, shameful incident
会社の 不祥事が 報じられました。
The company's scandal was in the news.
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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.