The kanji 章: meaning, readings and stroke order

章

Meaning: chapter, writing
On reading: ショウ shou
Kun reading: —
Strokes: 11
Radical: 立 stand, erect
Level: Level 3 · grade 3

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: chương, đoạn văn (chương)
Japanese: ぶんしょう。ほんのくぎり。
Korean: 글, 장 (장)
Chinese: 文章、章节

Readings, words and example sentences

ショウ shou · on reading

文ぶん章しょう
writing, piece of text
短い 文ぶん章しょうを書きます。
I write a short piece of text.

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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.