晶 – sparkle, clear, crystal

12 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#1613 in newspaper frequencyN1 vocabulary

The kanji 晶 means sparkle, clear, crystal. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ショウ (shou). It is written with 12 strokes, under radical 日 (no. 72).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ショウ	shou

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 日 (Kangxi radical 72). Components: 日.

Words using 晶

結晶けっしょうcrystal

Example sentences

彼は海水から塩を結晶させて取り出した。

He crystallized salt from seawater.

Tatoeba #109000

あのかわいい赤ちゃんは彼らの愛の結晶です。

That cute baby is the fruit of their love.

Tatoeba #231345

Kanji with the same radical

日時明昨早映景旧易春暴普昇星曜暮

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