The kanji 装: meaning, readings and stroke order
装
- Meaning
- dress, pretend
- On reading
- ソウ sou、ショウ shou
- Kun reading
- よそお(う) yosoou
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 衣 clothes
- Level
- Level 6 · grade 6
- Old form
- 裝
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- trang phục, giả vờ (trang)
- Japanese
- みなりを ととのえる。ふりを する。
- Korean
- 차림, 꾸미다 (장)
- Chinese
- 服装、假装
Readings, words and example sentences
ソウ sou · on reading
服装
clothes, what you wear
式の 日は 服装を きちんと します。
On the day of the ceremony, we dress neatly.
ショウ shou · on reading · less common
衣装
costume
げきの 衣装を みんなで 作ります。
We all make costumes for the play.
よそお(う) yosoou · kun reading · less common
装う
to pretend
こわいのに 平気を 装います。
I'm scared, but I pretend I'm fine.
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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.