聳 – rise, tower

17 strokesN1 vocabulary

The kanji 聳 means rise, tower. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ショウ (shou); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is そび.える (sobieru). It is written with 17 strokes, under radical 耳 (no. 128).

Stroke order

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

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ショウ	shou
Kun’yomi	そび.える	sobieru

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: 耳 (Kangxi radical 128). Components: 耳・并・疋・彳・人.

Words using 聳

聳えるそびえるto rise (of a building, mountain, etc.)

Kanji with the same radical

職聞聴聖耳耽

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