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common

ショウ/SHŌ/    め.す/me.su/SHOU/ショウ/    me.su/め.す/

seduce;  call;  send for;  wear;  put on;  ride in;  buy;  eat;  drink;  catch (cold)

Radical: 口 (mouth).   Strokes: 5画.   Elements: 口刀.   Pinyin: zhào / shào / zhāo.   Hangul: 소 [so] 조 [jo].

Jōyō Kanji High School.   JLPT N2.

Example compounds:
ショウSHŌ応召【おうしょうōshō】respond to a call for military service; being called to the colours (colors)
召喚【しょうかんshōkan】summons
召請【しょうせいshōsei】calling together; invitation
めすmesu召す【めすmesu】to call; to eat; to put on; to ride; to catch (a cold); to do; honorific suffix used after the -masu stem of a verb
聞こし召す【きこしめすkikoshimesu】to hear; to drink
思し召す【おぼしめすoboshimesu】to think (only used to speak of others); to turn one's attention toward (only used to speak of others); to honour the target of one's emotions
Codepoints and classification codes:
53ec–Unicode
30-4–JIS X 0208
2-2-3–SKIP
2f3.3–TKD
1760.2–Four Corner
3577–De Roo
Dictionary indices:
668–Classic Nelson
695–The New Nelson Character Dictionary by A. Nelson
2001–New Japanese-English Character Dictionary by J. Halpern
1261–Kanji Learner's Dictionary by J. Halpern
86–Remembering the Kanji by J. Heisig
1473–A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage (Gakken)
152–Japanese Names by P.G. O'Neill
1115–Essential Kanji by P.G. O'Neill
3241–Daikanwajiten 「大漢和辞典」 by T. Morohashi vol. 2 p. 751
1387–A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters by K.G. Henshall
995–Kanji & Kana by Spahn and Hadamitzky
396–Kanji Flashcards by M. Hodges and T. Okazaki
1043–Tuttle Kanji Cards by A. Kask
1691–Kanji in Context by Nishiguchi and Kono
279–Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
87–Y. Maniette's French adaptation of Heisig
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