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ソウ//    ショウ//    こと////    SHOU//    koto//

a koto

Radical: (bamboo).   Strokes: 14画.   Elements: ヨ竹爪亅.   Variants: 筝琴.   Pinyin: zhēng.   Hangul:  [jaeng].

Example compounds:
ソウそうきょくsōkyoku】koto music
そう】koto (13-stringed Japanese zither); stringed instrument; zheng (Chinese zither)
ぞくそうzokusō】modern koto (in contrast to the gagaku koto or gakuso); modern koto music
ことことkoto】koto (13-stringed Japanese zither); stringed instrument; zheng (Chinese zither)
ことじkotoji】bridge of a koto
Codepoints and classification codes:
7b8fUnicode
68-23JIS X 0208
2-6-8SKIP
6f8.10TKD
8850.7Four Corner
Dictionary indices:
3412Classic Nelson
4313The New Nelson Character Dictionary by A. Nelson
2703New Japanese-English Character Dictionary by J. Halpern
26133Daikanwajiten 「大漢和辞典」 by T. Morohashi vol. 8 p. 795
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