Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 6

JLPT level: N2

801 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 14

Meaning: stratum, social class, layer, story, floor

Kunyomi:

Onyomi: ソウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: しかばね

Meaning: corpse

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

(かいそう)   class, social stratum, hierarchy

(ちそう)   stratum

(じょうそう)   upper stratum

(かそう)   lower stratum

ビル(こうそうビル)   skyscraper

圏(せいそうけん)   stratosphere

知識(ちしきそう)   the intellectual class

読者(どくしゃそう)   class of readers

Onyomi Examples

ソウ layer, stratum, seam, bed, class, stratum, bracket, group, sheaf, counter for stories (of a building)

ソウグン (geol) group

ジュウソウ multistoried, multilayered

コウソウ high-rise (building), multistory, multistoried, tall, high (altitude), upper (atmosphere, air current, etc.)