Entry
  1. Noun, Noun, used as a suffix

    minister; secretary

    used mainly in fiction

  2. Noun

    Shujing; The Book of Documents

    see 書経

  3. Ministry of Central Affairs (Qin-dynasty department)

    Historical term

  4. Oversight Department (under the Department of State of the ritsuryō system)

    Historical termsee 弁官

  5. female palace attendant in the Bureau of Books

    Historical term

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

esteem, furthermore, still, yet

Kun
なお
On
ショウ
Strokes
8
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N1
Frequency
1531 of 2500
Radical
small
WaniKani
Level 54

Built from

Used in names as

たか、たかし、ないし、なり、ひさ、ひさし

Dictionary and index codes (30)
CodeReference
2-3-5, 3-5-3SKIP code
3n5.2The Kanji Dictionary
9022.7Four corner code
1049deroo
5c1aUnicode hex code
1-30-16JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1361Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1395New Nelson (John Haig)
2233New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2774Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1422Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1919Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
184Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
196Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1612A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
753Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1948Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
7493PMorohashi
1392A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1853Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2009Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1225Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1165Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1810Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
514Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
187Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
shang4Pinyin reading
sangKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
54WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

write

Kun
か.く、-が.き、-がき
On
ショ
Strokes
10
Taught
Grade 2
JLPT
N5
Frequency
169 of 2500
Radical
say
WaniKani
Level 16

Built from

Used in names as

かき

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
2-6-4SKIP code
4c6.6The Kanji Dictionary
5060.1Four corner code
1678deroo
66f8Unicode hex code
1-29-81JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3719Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2463New Nelson (John Haig)
2658New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3292Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1703Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2314Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
327Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
349Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
130A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1216Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
70Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
14294Morohashi
142A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
131Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
131Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
92sakade
58Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
159henshall3
197Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
121crowley
181Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.3busy_people
998Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
333Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
shu1Pinyin reading
seoKorean reading
n5JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
16WaniKani level