KanjiDB
Radical Index : : 称

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ショウ, たた.える, とな.える, あ.げる, かな.う, はか.り, はか.る, ほめ.る
appellation, praise, admire, name, title, fame
This kanji has 10 strokes: 5 strokes in the "two branch tree" radical (のぎ) and 5 other strokes
Sample Compounds (91):
1.

あいしょう

pet name
2.

こうしょう

public name, announcing publicly, nominal
3.

りゃくしょう

abbreviation
4.

つうしょう

popular name, nickname, alias
5.

かしょう

temporary name
6.

せいしきめいしょう

formal name
7.

さしょう

misrepresentation, false statement
8.

じしょう

self-styled, would-be, calling oneself
9.

そんしょう

honorary title
10.
する
しょうする

to take the name of, to call oneself, to pretend, to feign, to purport
11.

けいしょう

title of honour, title of honor
12.

たいしょう

symmetry
13.

しょうごう

title, name, degree
14.

しょうさん

praise, admiration, commendation
15.

こしょう

calling out, call by name
16.

めいしょう

name
17.

しょうりょう

measuring weight, weighing
18.

こうさたいしょうせい

crossing symmetry (physics)
19.
ける
めいしょうをつける

to give a name (to something)
20.

たんしょう

admiration
21.

ひょうりょう

measuring weight, weighing, maximum weight (on a scales)
22.
える
ほめたたえる

to admire, to praise, to applaud
23.

いしょう

alias, pseudonym, pen name, nom de plume
24.

ちゅうしょう

(ling) mesioproximal pronoun (indicating proximity to the listener, i.e., sore, soko, sochira)
25.

みぶんさしょう

false personation, misrepresentation of one''s social position
26.

こうしょうしほん

authorized capital, authorised capital
27.

いちにんしょう

(ling) first person
28.

ちょうたいしょうりろん

supersymmetry
29.

にんしょう

(ling) person, personal
30.

こうしょうしほんきん

nominal capital
31.

せんしょう

pretension, assumption (of a title)
32.

いちにんしょうだいめいし

(ling) first person pronoun
33.

にんしょうだいめいし

(ling) personal pronoun
34.

こうしょうばりき

nominal horsepower
35.

はんしょう

lumping similar things together and giving the group a collective name, collective name, generic term
36.

えんしょう

(ling) distal pronoun (indicating distance from both speaker and listener, i.e., are, asoko, achira)
37.

つうしょうめい

alias, nickname
38.

すいしょう

admiration, praise
39.

さゆうそうしょう

symmetry
40.

せんしょう

(rare) depreciatory name
41.

とくしょう

special name or designation
42.

さゆうたいしょう

bilateral symmetry
43.

かしょう

undeserved praise
44.

ににんしょう

(ling) second person
45.

せいしょう

official name
46.

がしょう

correct name, elegant name, name of poem
47.

ににんしょうだいめいし

(ling) second person pronoun
48.

ぜんしょう

(logical) universal
49.

さんにんしょう

(ling) third person
50.

かいてんたいしょう

rotation symmetry
51.

はんたいしょうてき

antisymmetric
52.

そうしょう

symmetry
53.

さんにんしょうだいめいし

(ling) third person pronoun
54.

かいしょう

renaming, retitling
55.

はんしょう

lumping similar things together and giving the group a collective name, collective name, generic term
56.

そうしょう

general term
57.

がくれきさしょう

false statement (misrepresentation) of one''s academic career
58.

ひしょう

this wretch (oneself), you wretch
59.

ぞくしょう

common name, popular name
60.

しょう

call, label
61.

ぎしょう

assuming a false name
62.

ひたいしょう

asymmetry
63.

ぞくしょう

(in Japanese history) one''s class
64.
える
たたえる

to extol, to give praise
65.

きゅうしょう

old name, former title
66.

ひたいしょうせんそう

asymmetric war
67.
える
となえる

to assume the name of
68.

きんしょう

(ling) proximal pronoun (indicating proximity to the speaker, i. e., kore, koko, kochira)
69.

びしょう

euphemism, eulogistic name
70.

たしょう

(ling) third person
71.
する
やまいとしょうする

to feign illness, to pretend to be ill
72.

しょうこ

appellation, designation
73.

けいしょうりゃく

titles omitted, (names listed) without honorifics
74.

へいしょう

classifying together
75.

たいしょうじく

an axis of symmetry
76.

けいれきさしょう

misrepresentation (falsification) of one''s past record (personal history)
77.

へいしょう

classifying together
78.

たいしょうせい

symmetry (physics)
79.

けんしょう

refer to modestly
80.

べっしょう

alias, pseudonym, pen name, nom de plume
81.

たいしょうてき

symmetrical
82.

しょうび

praise
83.

こしょう

old name
84.

べっしょう

disparaging words, derogatory term
85.

だいいちにんしょう

(ling) first person
86.

しょうみょう

intoning or chanting the name of the Buddha
87.
える
ほめたたえる

to admire, to praise, to applaud
88.

だいさんにんしょう

(ling) third person
89.

しょうよう

praise, admiration, exalting, extolling
90.

こしょう

boasting, exaggeration
91.

だいににんしょう

(ling) second person

Kuten Code: 3046
EUC Code: bece
Shift-JIS Code: 8f6d
JIS Code: 3e4e
Unicode: 79f0
Radical Index: 115
Frequency Rank: 985
Jouyou Grade: 8
DeRoo Code: 2241
Four Corner code: 2899.0
"New Japanese-English Character Dictionary" Index: 1160
"Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary" Index: 3280
"New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary" Index: 4139
"Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide" Index: 1433
"Kanji in Context" Index: 1554
"Kanji Learners Dictionary" Index: 788
"Essential Kanji" Index: 736
"A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese" Index: 815
"The Kanji Dictionary" Index Code: 5d5.8
"Kanji & Kana 2nd Edition" Index: 978
Morohashi Volume.Page: 8.571
Gakken Index: 714
"Remembering The Kanji" Index: 1187
"Japanese Names" Index: 905
Korean Reading: ching
Pinyin: cheng1, chen4, cheng4
Cross Reference codes: J0634A, J1514D

Radical Index : : 称

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