Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N2

1175 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 7

Meaning: bed, counter for beds, floor, padding, tatami

Kunyomi: とこ ゆか

Onyomi: ショウ

Composition: 广

Radical

Radical: 广

Reading: まだれ

Meaning: house on cliff

Strokes: 3

广

Examples

Examples with audio

医(りんしょうい)   clinician

(おんしょう)   hotbed, breeding ground

(びょうしょう)   sickbed

する(きしょうする)   get up, get out of bed

(とこ)   bed

屋(とこや)   barber

の間(とこのま)   alcove

(ねどこ)   bed

(ゆか)   floor

下(ゆかした)   under the floor

Onyomi Examples

ショウ counter for beds

ショウギ camp stool, folding stool

リンショウ clinical (e.g. pathology, physiology)

オンショウ hotbed, breeding ground

Kunyomi Examples

とこ bed, bedding, sickbed, alcove, riverbed, seedbed, straw "core" of a tatami mat, floor

の間 とこのま tokonoma (alcove where art or flowers are displayed)

やっとこ pincers, nippers, pliers

かなとこ anvil

ゆか floor, stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player), dining platform built across a river

ゆかした under the floor

かしょう riverbed, raised platform on the bank of a river for enjoying the cool in summer

納涼 のうりょうゆか raised platform on the bank of a river for enjoying the summer cool