漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
僧: Buddhist priest, monk
JLPT N113 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 曽 gives the sound
13 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
ソウsou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 僧そうmonk; priest
- 小僧こぞうyoungster; boy; kid
- 僧侶そうりょpriest; monk; bonze
- 尼僧にそうBuddhist nun
- 高僧こうそうhigh priest; highly ranked priest
- 僧堂そうどうtemple meditation hall or certain other…
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
曽
Also built on formerly (曽)
僧 takes the 曽 family's reading, ソウ (sou).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side僧 Buddhist priest · 亻
vs増 increase · 土In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · sēng
Same form: 僧 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 僧 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 僧 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin sēng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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