稿 – draft, copy, manuscript

15 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#1400 in newspaper frequencyN2 vocabulary

The kanji 稿 means draft, copy, manuscript, straw. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is コウ (kou); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is わら、したがき (wara, shitagaki). It is written with 15 strokes, under radical 禾 (no. 115).

Stroke order

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

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	コウ	kou
Kun’yomi	わら	wara
Kun’yomi	したがき	shitagaki

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: 禾・口・高・亠・冂.

Words using 稿

原稿げんこうmanuscript

Example sentences

この原稿は書き直したほうがいいな。

I'd better rewrite this paper.

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Kanji with the same radical

私税移種程科積秋秀秘称秒稲稼秩穏

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