昌
昌 — Prosperous
prosperous, bright, clear
On’yomiショウ (shou)
Kun’yomiさかん (sakan)
Stroke order (8 strokes)
Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).
Study notes
昌 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 8 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1372 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).
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