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抄

extract
Stroke count: 7

Readings

On readingショウ
JōyōGrade 8KANJIDIC

Meanings

  1. extractRtK
    百練抄とも書く。It is also written as 百練抄 (Hyakuren sho).wiki
    稿本北山抄　巻第十Kohon Hokuzan Sho (Manual on Courtly Etiquette, Volume 10)wiki
  2. selection
  3. summary
  4. copy
    昨日、ひょんなことで父親の戸籍抄本のコピーを見てしまいました。Yesterday I stumbled across a copy of my father's family register.tatoeba
  5. spread thin
  1. excerpt
  2. annotation
  3. shō (unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml)
  4. banknote

Radicals and components

Radical手hand扌variant
Components
How it's built
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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finger · fingers · few

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 699

Compound words

抄本しょうほん
excerpt; abridgment; abridgement; book of selections
抄録しょうろく
quotation; abstract; selection; summary
詩抄ししょう
anthology
手抄しゅしょう
excerption
抄うすくう
to scoop
抄出しょうしゅつ
taking excerpts
抄物しょうもの
Muromachi-period texts or annotations of texts used in Zen lectures
抄訳しょうやく
abridged translation
史記抄しきしょう
commentary on Shiki
戸籍抄本こせきしょうほん
official copy of part of family register

Stroke Order

7 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 抄

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step