Entry
  1. Taru adjective, Adverb taking the 'to' particle

    blue (sky, ocean, etc.)

    Formal or literary term

  2. fresh and green (of vegetation); verdant; lush

    Formal or literary term

  3. greying (hair); aged

    Formal or literary term

Also written 蒼蒼【そうそう】

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Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

blue, pale

Kun
あお.い
On
ソウ
Strokes
13
Taught
Jinmeiyō
JLPT
N1
Frequency
2276 of 2500
Radical
grass
WaniKani
Level 57

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Dictionary and index codes (20)
CodeReference
2-3-10, 2-4-10SKIP code
3k10.22The Kanji Dictionary
4460.7Four corner code
84bcUnicode hex code
1-33-83JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4025Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
5162New Nelson (John Haig)
2507New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2943Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1512Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2050Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2399Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2479Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1988Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
31627XMorohashi
2225Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
cang1Pinyin reading
changKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
57WaniKani level