Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

将: leader, commander

Also: general, admiral, or, and again, soon, from now on, just about

JLPT N210 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met

⺤ and 寸 carry the meaning · ⺦ gives the sound

10 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ショウshou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 将来しょうらいfuture, prospects
  • 将軍しょうぐんgeneral, shogun
  • 大将たいしょうgeneral, admiral
  • 王将おうしょうking (shogi game)
  • 将しょうcommander; general; leader
  • 将棋しょうぎshogi; Japanese chess
  • 主将しゅしょうcommander-in-chief; supreme commander
  • 将校しょうこうcommissioned officer; military officer

Also read ソウ, まさに, はた, まさ, ひきいる, もって, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
⺦

Also built on ⺦

⺤

Also built on ⺤

寸

Also built on inch (寸)

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将 gives its sound to

The family reading is ショウ (shou). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read ショウ

90 kanji share this on'yomiAll 90

Also read ソウ

56 kanji share this on'yomiAll 56
In ChineseSimplified, as in Japanese · traditional 將 · jiāng

Japan uses the same simplified form as mainland China, 将. Taiwan and Hong Kong write 將.

Simplified
将 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
將 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin jiāng 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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