Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji

爽: refreshing, bracing

Also: resonant, sweet, clear

JLPT N111 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

爻 carries the meaning · 大 is drawn in

11 strokes
  • Oracle bone · Shang
  • Today

Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

ソウsou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 爽快そうかいrefreshing; exhilarating; invigorating
  • 豪爽ごうそうfine disposition

さわやかsawayaka · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 爽やかさわやかfresh; refreshing; invigorating

Also read あきらか, たがう, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · shuǎng

Same form: 爽 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
爽 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
爽 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin shuǎng 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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