The kanji 酸: meaning, readings and stroke order
酸
- Meaning
- sour, acid
- On reading
- サン san
- Kun reading
- す(い) sui
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 酉 wine, alcohol
- Level
- Level 5 · grade 5
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- chua, axit (toan)
- Japanese
- すっぱい。
- Korean
- 시다, 산성 (산)
- Chinese
- 酸、酸性
Readings, words and example sentences
サン san · on reading
酸素
oxygen
空気中の 酸素を 調べます。
We learn about the oxygen in the air.
す(い) sui · kun reading · less common
酸い
sour (an older way to say it)
この みかんは まだ 酸いです。
This mandarin orange is still sour.
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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.