Entry
  1. Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verb

    dressing up; putting on makeup; dolling (oneself) up

    Usually written using kana alone

    彼女は彼が精一杯のおめかしをしてきたのを見て、ウフッと笑った。
    When she saw the lengths he'd gone to to get all dressed up, she couldn't help letting a brief chuckle escape.
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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

cosmetics, adorn (one's person)

On
ショウ
Strokes
12
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N1
Frequency
1545 of 2500
Radical
rice
WaniKani
Level 47

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Used in names as

Dictionary and index codes (29)
CodeReference
1-6-6SKIP code
6b6.1The Kanji Dictionary
9091.4Four corner code
1072deroo
7ca7Unicode hex code
1-30-49JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3475Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4400New Nelson (John Haig)
1345New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1703Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
909Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1232Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
923Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
991Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1218A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1595Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
26945Morohashi
1406A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1699Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1815Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1614Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1575Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1284Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1499Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
932Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
zhuang1Pinyin reading
jangKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
47WaniKani level