The Japanese kanji for soar: 翔

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The kanji for soar: 翔

Feathers (羽) beside a sheep (羊): to take flight. Popular in modern given names.

翔
Meaning
soar
Kun reading
kake(ru) (Japanese)
On reading
SHŌ (from Chinese)
Strokes
12
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書き順Stroke order

翔 is written in 12 strokes, in this order. The red line is the new stroke at each step. Japanese is written top to bottom and left to right, and the order matters: it is what makes handwriting flow.

    Stroke data from KanjiVG by Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0.

    使い方In everyday Japanese

    Word Reading Meaning
    飛翔 hishō flight, soaring
    翔太 Shōta a popular boy's name

    敬意Wearing it

    Soar. Light and modern; you'll see it in a lot of young people's names.

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