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ショウ/SHŌ/    さかん/sakan/SHOU/ショウ/    sakan/さかん/

prosperous;  bright;  clear

Radical: (sun).   Strokes: 8画.   Elements: .   Pinyin: chāng.   Hangul:  [chang].   Nanori: まさ / まさし / よし / あき / あきら / さかえ / あつ / すけmasa / masashi / yoshi / aki / akira / sakae / atsu / suke.

Jinmeiyō Kanji.   JLPT N1.

Example compounds:
ショウSHŌしょうへいshōhei】peace; tranquility; tranquillity
りゅうしょうryūshō】prosperity
げんしょうせきgenshōseki】type of slate (from Miyagi pref.)
Codepoints and classification codes:
660cUnicode
30-27JIS X 0208
2-4-4SKIP
4c4.4TKD
6060.0Four Corner
Dictionary indices:
2105Classic Nelson
2428The New Nelson Character Dictionary by A. Nelson
2414New Japanese-English Character Dictionary by J. Halpern
1564Kanji Learner's Dictionary by J. Halpern
25Remembering the Kanji by J. Heisig
1552A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage (Gakken)
715Japanese Names by P.G. O'Neill
1950Essential Kanji by P.G. O'Neill
13803Daikanwajiten 「大漢和辞典」 by T. Morohashi vol. 5 p. 759
2089Kanji & Kana by Spahn and Hadamitzky
25Y. Maniette's French adaptation of Heisig