漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
層: stratum, social class
Also: layer, story, floor
JLPT N214 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
尸 carries the meaning · 曽 gives the sound
14 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
ソウsou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 階層かいそうclass, social stratum, hierarchy
- 地層ちそうstratum
- 上層じょうそうupper stratum
- 下層かそうlower stratum
- 高層ビルこうそうビルskyscraper
- 成層圏せいそうけんstratosphere
- 知識層ちしきそうthe intellectual class
- 読者層どくしゃそうclass of readers
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Lie down and cover up! This radical has two lives: it can represent the stillness of a body or the protection of a roof.”
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)
層 takes the 曽 family's reading, ソウ (sou).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side層 stratum · 尸
vs増 increase · 土In ChineseSimplified 层 · traditional, as in Japanese · céng
Japan keeps the traditional form 層; mainland China simplifies it to 层.
- Simplified
- 层 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 層 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin céng 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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