臓 – entrails, viscera, bowels

19 strokesTaught in grade 6#991 in newspaper frequencyN3 vocabulary

The kanji 臓 means entrails, viscera, bowels. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ゾウ (zou); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is はらわた (harawata). It is written with 19 strokes, under radical 肉 (no. 130).

Stroke order

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

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ゾウ	zou
Kun’yomi	はらわた	harawata

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: 肉 (Kangxi radical 130). Components: ノ・月・臣・戈・艾・厂.

Words using 臓

心臓しんぞうheart

Example sentences

私は自分の心臓が激しく打っているのがわかった。

I felt my heart beating wildly.

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Kanji with the same radical

能育脳背脱肉肝胸腕脅肩腐脚腹膨腰

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