狙 – aim at, sight, shadow

8 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#745 in newspaper frequencyN2 vocabulary

The kanji 狙 means aim at, sight, shadow, stalk. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ソ、ショ (so, sho); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is ねら.う、ねら.い (nerau, nerai). It is written with 8 strokes, under radical 犬 (no. 94).

Stroke order

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

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ソ	so
On’yomi	ショ	sho
Kun’yomi	ねら.う	nerau
Kun’yomi	ねら.い	nerai

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: 犬 (Kangxi radical 94). Components: 一・犯・目.

Words using 狙

狙いねらいaim (of a gun, bow, etc.)狙うねらうto aim at (with a weapon, etc.)

Kanji with the same radical

状独献犯獲猛犬狭狂獄猫獣猿狩狡

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