秀 – excel, excellence, beauty

7 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#848 in newspaper frequencyN3 vocabulary

The kanji 秀 means excel, excellence, beauty, surpass. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is シュウ (shuu); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is ひい.でる (hiideru). It is written with 7 strokes, under radical 禾 (no. 115).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	シュウ	shuu
Kun’yomi	ひい.でる	hiideru

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: 禾 (Kangxi radical 115). Components: 乃・禾・ノ.

Words using 秀

優秀ゆうしゅうsuperior

Example sentences

彼女は作文が優秀だ。

She is excellent in composition.

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Kanji with the same radical

私税移種程科積秋秘称秒稲稼秩稿穏

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.