曽

See also: 曾
曽 U+66FD, 曽
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-66FD
← 曼
[U+66FC] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 曾 →
[U+66FE]

Translingual
Japanese 曽
Simplified 曾
Traditional 曾

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) or X金田日 (XCWA), composition ⿱丷𭥫 or ⿱𬎿日)

  1. already
  2. sign of the past

Derived characters

Descendants

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

Japanese

Shinjitai

 曽

Kyūjitai

 曾

Kanji
曽

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 曾)

Readings
  • On (unclassified): ぞ (zo, Jōyō, uncommon); そう (sō, Jōyō); そ (so)
  • Kun: かつて (katsute, 曽て); すなわち (sunawachi, 曽ち)

Usage notes

This character was added to the Jōyō kanji list in 2010 and adopted this simplified form. Before 2010 the unsimplified form 曾 was the 印 (いん)刷 (さつ)標 (ひょう)準 (じゅん)字 (じ)体 (たい) (insatsu hyōjun jitai), and the simplified form 曽 was a 簡 (かん)易 (い)慣 (かん)用 (よう)字 (じ)体 (たい) (kan'i kan'yō jitai).

Prefix

曽 (hiragana そう, rōmaji sō-)

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

Alternative forms

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