鞘 ショウ, ソウ, さや
sheath, case, margin, difference, shells (of beans)

This kanji has 16 strokes: 9 in the "leather pelt" radical 革 (かくのかわ) and 7 other strokes.

Sample compounds (3) :

  1. 朱鞘
    しゅざや    		red-lacquered sword sheath
  2. 値鞘
    ねざや    		margin, spread (in prices)
  3. 腱鞘
    けんしょう    		sheath of tendon
Kanji Character : 鞘
Kuten Encoding : 3068
SJIS Encoding : 3e64
Unicode Encoding : 9798
Old Nelson Index : 5099
Radical Number : 177
Heisig Index : 2784
New Nelson Index : 6587
O'Neil Index : 2542
Stroke Count : 16
Spahn & Hadamitzky Character ID :  
SKIP Code : 1-9-7
Four Corner Code : 4952.7
Korean reading : cho
Pinyin reading : shao1
Morohashi Index String : 42850X
Morohashi Volume and Page String : 12.0164
Morohashi Index Number : 42850
Morohashi Page : 164
Morohashi Volume : 12
Morohashi Glyph is not in JIS X 0208 : true
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