The kanji 雄: meaning, readings and stroke order
雄
- Meaning
- male, heroic
- On reading
- ユウ yuu
- Kun reading
- お o、おす osu
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 隹 small bird
- Level
- Level 7 · junior high school
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- con đực, hùng mạnh (hùng)
- Japanese
- おす。つよくて りっぱ。
- Korean
- 수컷, 씩씩하다 (웅)
- Chinese
- 雄性、英雄
Readings, words and example sentences
ユウ yuu · on reading
英雄
hero
物語の 英雄に あこがれます。
I look up to the hero in the story.
お o · kun reading · less common
雄花
male flower
かぼちゃの 雄花を 観察します。
We look closely at the male flowers of a pumpkin plant.
おす osu · kun reading
雄
male (animal)
この ライオンは 雄です。
This lion is a male.
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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.