社

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 3.2 Noun 3.3 Suffix 3.3.1 See also 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi

[edit] Translingual

Stroke order

[edit] Han character

社 (radical 113 示+3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 戈火土 (IFG), four-corner 3421₀, composition ⿰礻土)

1. god of the soil and altars to him
2. group of families
3. company, society

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 839, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24631
• Dae Jaweon: page 1257, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2386, character 7
• Unihan data for U+793E

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

社 (Yale se5)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

社 (grade 2 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: しゃ (sha), じゃ (ja)
• Kun: やしろ (yashiro), くみあい (kumiai), こそ (koso)

[edit] Compounds

社会 社交 社寺 社稷 社団 社長 副社長

愛社精神 会社 支社 神社 入社 退社 本社 末社

[edit] Noun

社 (hiragana やしろ, romaji yashiro)

1. a shrine

[edit] Suffix

社 (hiragana しゃ, romaji sha)

1. Abbreviation of 会社 (かいしゃ kaisha) "company."; co.
   • 毎日新聞社

     まいにちしんぶんしゃ

     Mainichi Shimbun-sha

     The Mainichi Newspapers [Company]

2. When in parentheses, an abbreviation of 社団法人 (しゃだんほうじん shadan hōjin), a type of incorporated association.

[edit] See also

• 株 (かぶ, kabu), “‘inc.’”)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

社 (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa, Yale sa)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

社 (pinyin shè (she4), Wade-Giles she⁴)