Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons

創: genesis, wound

Also: injury, hurt, start, originate

JLPT N112 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met

刂 carries the meaning · 倉 gives the sound

12 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ソウsou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 創意そういoriginal idea, originality
  • 創世記そうせいきGenesis
  • 創設者そうせつしゃfounder
  • 創始者そうししゃoriginator
  • 独創的などくそうてきなcreative, original
  • 創造するそうぞうするcreate
  • 創作するそうさくするcreate, write a novel
  • 創立するそうりつするestablish, found
  • 創刊するそうかんするlaunching (a magazine)
  • 創業するそうぎょうするestablish (a company)

Also read ショウ, つくる, はじめる, きず, けずしける, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

Learn it 4 steps
Print sheet Present
成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Slice through it! This "standing knife" radical is all about precision and force.”
More in the ⺉ knife story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
倉

Also built on godown (倉)

創 takes the 倉 family's reading, ソウ (sou).

刂

Also built on knife (刂)

All 27

Also read ソウ

56 kanji share this on'yomiAll 56

Also read ショウ

90 kanji share this on'yomiAll 90

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
創 genesis · 刂
vs蒼 blue · 艹
創 has 刂 where 蒼 has 艹.
In ChineseSimplified 创 · traditional, as in Japanese · chuàng

Japan keeps the traditional form 創; mainland China simplifies it to 创.

Simplified
创 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
創 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin chuàng most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

One click tells us. No sign-up.