曽

See also 曾

Translingual

Etymology

Japanese shinjitai Simplified from 曾, used in compound characters such as 増 (from 増).

Han character

曽 (radical 72 日+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 金田日 (CWA), X金田日 (XCWA))

1. already
2. sign of past

Derived characters

• 僧 憎 増 層 噌 (Japanese shinjitai)

Descendants

• そ
• ソ

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 503, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 2, page 1514, character 6
• Unihan data for U+66FD

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Japanese

Kanji

曽 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: ぞ (zo), そう (sō), そ (so)
• Kun: かって (katte), すなわち (sunawachi)

Prefix

曽 (hiragana そう, romaji sō)

1. great- (e.g. great-grandmother)

Alternative forms

• ひい
• ひ

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Mandarin

Hanzi

曽 (pinyin cēng (ceng1), zēng (zeng1), Wade-Giles ts'eng¹, tseng¹)