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: 尸 曽
Radical: 尸
Reading: しかばね
Meaning: corpse
Strokes: 3
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
層 (ソウ) layer, stratum, seam, bed, class, stratum, bracket, group, sheaf, counter for stories (of a building)
層群 (ソウグン) (geol) group
重層 (ジュウソウ) multistoried, multilayered
高層 (コウソウ) high-rise (building), multistory, multistoried, tall, high (altitude), upper (atmosphere, air current, etc.)