ショウ, たた.える, とな.える, あ.げる, かな.う, はか.り, はか.る, ほめ.る
appellation, praise, admire, name, title, fame

This kanji has 10 strokes: 5 in the "two branch tree" radical (のぎ) and 5 other strokes.

Sample compounds (19) :

  1. える
    たたえる
    to extol, to give praise
  2. する
    しょうする
    to pretend, to take the name of, to feign, to purport

  3. ひしょう
    this wretch (oneself), you wretch

  4. にんしょう
    (gram) person, personal

  5. たしょう
    (gram) third person

  6. へいしょう
    (vs) classifying together

  7. ぞくしょう
    common name, popular name

  8. ぎしょう
    (vs) assuming a false name

  9. せんしょう
    pretension, assumption (of a title)

  10. こしょう
    (vs) calling out, call by name

  11. めいしょう
    name

  12. そうしょう
    symmetry

  13. がしょう
    correct name, elegant name, name of poem

  14. やまいとしょう
    (vs) feigning illness, pretending to be ill

  15. そうしょう
    general term

  16. じしょう
    (vs) self-styled, would-be, calling oneself

  17. さしょう
    (vs) misrepresentation, false statement

  18. しょうさん
    (vs) praise, admiration, commendation

  19. かしょう
    undeserved praise
Kanji Character : 称
Kuten Encoding : 3046
SJIS Encoding : 3e4e
Unicode Encoding : 79f0
Old Nelson Index : 3280
Radical Number : 115
Frequency Ranking : 1090
Gakken Index : 1187
Grade Level : 8
Halpern Index : 1160
Heisig Index : 905
Henshall Index : 714
New Nelson Index : 4139
O'Neil Index : 1118
Stroke Count : 10
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji Dictionary Index : 5d5.8
Spahn & Hadamitzky Radical Strokes : 5
Spahn & Hadamitzky Other Strokes : 5
Spahn & Hadamitzky Character ID : d
Spahn & Hadamitzky kanji Number : 8
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji & Kana Index : 978
SKIP Code : 1-5-5
De Roo Code : 2241
Four Corner Code : 2899.0
Korean reading : ching
Pinyin reading : cheng4
Morohashi Index String : 25016P
Morohashi Volume and Page String : 8.0571
Morohashi Index Number : 25016
Morohashi Page : 571
Morohashi Volume : 8
Morohashi entry is Prime : true
Cross Index Codes
  1. J0634A
  2. J1514D
Dictionary Codes
  1. R2241
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