ショウ, てのひら, たなごころ
manipulate, rule, administer, conduct, palm of hand

This kanji has 12 strokes: 3 in the "little" radical (ちいさい) and 9 other strokes.

Sample compounds (4) :


  1. たなごころ
    the palm

  2. しょうあく
    (vs) grasping, seizing, holding

  3. しょうり
    (vs) rule of law, administration of justice

  4. しゃしょう
    (train) conductor
Kanji Character : 掌
Kuten Encoding : 3024
SJIS Encoding : 3e38
Unicode Encoding : 638c
Old Nelson Index : 1366
Radical Number : 42
Classical Radical Number : 64
Frequency Ranking : 1478
Gakken Index : 1618
Grade Level : 8
Halpern Index : 2602
Heisig Index : 801
Henshall Index : 1402
New Nelson Index : 2200
O'Neil Index : 1748
Stroke Count : 12
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji Dictionary Index : 3n9.4
Spahn & Hadamitzky Radical Strokes : 3
Spahn & Hadamitzky Other Strokes : 9
Spahn & Hadamitzky Character ID : n
Spahn & Hadamitzky kanji Number : 4
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji & Kana Index : 499
SKIP Code : 2-5-7
De Roo Code : 1047
Four Corner Code : 9050.2
Korean reading : jang
Pinyin reading : zhang3
Morohashi Index String : 12248
Morohashi Volume and Page String : 5.0269
Morohashi Index Number : 12248
Morohashi Page : 269
Morohashi Volume : 5
Missclassification Codes
  1. PP2-3-9
Dictionary Codes
  1. R1047
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