Meaning & readings
wound, hurt, injure, impair, pain, injury, cut, gash, scar, weak point
Origin
This character combines a person classifier on the left with a sound-hint component on the right that suggests the pronunciation "sho." The left side marks that this word relates to a person or their body, while the right component provides a phonetic clue to how the character should be spoken. Together, they create a character that means wound or injury—damage that affects a person's body. The combination of the body-related classifier with the sound component is a common way Chinese and Japanese built their writing systems to pack both meaning and pronunciation clues into a single character.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 亻
- 𬀷
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 13
- Kangxi radical
- 9
- Grade
- Grade 6 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #845 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+050B7