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剿

Readings

Kana: ソウ、ショウ

Romaji: sou, shō

Kana

Romaji

Meaning

destroy

Stroke Diagram

Kanji Info

Stroke Count: 13

Radical Number: 18

Frequency:

Grade:

Skip Pattern: 1-11-2

Korean Reading: cho

Chinese Reading: chao1

Unicode: 527f

JIS: 5176

Indexes

Halpern Index: 1858

Nelson Index: 704

New Nelson Index: 508

Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 2f11.2

Four Corner Index: 2290.0

Daikanwanjiten Index: 2165

Daikanwanjiten Index and Page: 2.0308

Kodansha Kanji Index: 2335

Words

掃討 (そうとう)

cleaning up; sweeping up; mopping up

掃滅 (そうめつ)

wiping out; annihilation

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