Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji

肇: beginning

JLPT N114 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met

聿 carries the meaning · 戸 and 攵 are drawn in

14 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

チョウchou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 肇国ちょうこくfounding of a state
  • 肇歳ちょうさいbeginning of the year
  • 肇造ちょうぞうestablishment; creation (e.g. of a country)

Also read ジョウ, トウ, はじめる, はじめ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Also built on door (戸)

All 9
攵

Also built on to strike (攵)

All 26
聿

Also built on 聿

Also read チョウ

39 kanji share this on'yomiAll 39

Also read ジョウ

34 kanji share this on'yomiAll 34

Also read トウ

49 kanji share this on'yomiAll 49
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · zhào

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

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

Pinyin zhào 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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