漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
嵩: be aggravated, grow worse
Also: grow bulky, swell
JLPT N113 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met
山 carries the meaning · 高 is drawn in
13 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
かさkasa · kun'yomi · on its own
- 嵩かさbulk; volume; quantity
- 水嵩みずかさvolume of water (in a river, pond, flood…
- 年嵩としかさsenior; older; elderly
Also read スウ, シュウ, かさむ, たかい, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side嵩 be aggravated · 山
vs稿 draft · 禾In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · sōng
Same form: 嵩 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 嵩 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 嵩 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin sōng 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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