曽
- Meaning
- formerly once before ever never ex-
- On reading
- ソウ | ソ | ゾウ
- Kun reading
- かつ | かつて | すなわち
- Nanori
- —
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 73
- Grade
- 8
- JLPT
- —
- Frequency
- 1320
Stroke order
Words using 曽
- 嘗て かつて — once
- ひ孫 ひまご — great-grandchild
- 曾遊 そうゆう — former visit
- 曾 ひい — great (i.e. great-grandson, great-grandmother)
- 曽祖父 そうそふ — great-grandfather
- 曾祖母 そうそぼ — great-grandmother
- 未曾有 みぞう — unprecedented
- 大白檜曽 おおしらびそ — Maries' fir (Abies mariesii)
- 白檜曽 しらびそ — Veitch's silver fir (Abies veitchii)
- 曾おじいさん ひいおじいさん — great-grandfather
- 曽祖父母 そうそふぼ — great-grandparents
- 曾おばあさん ひいおばあさん — great-grandmother
- 木曽馬 きそうま — Kiso horse (Japanese indigenous horse breed)
- 熊襲 くまそ — Kumaso (ancient Japanese people who lived in southern Kyushu)
- 木曽路 きそじ — Kiso valley section of the Nakasendo
- 鬢削ぎ びんそぎ — cutting a person's sidelocks
- 佐曾羅 さそら — incense variety used in kōdō (orig. from India)
- 伊曽保物語 いそほものがたり — Aesop's Fables (published initially by the Jesuits in 1593)
- 曽我物語 そがものがたり — Soga Monogatari (war chronicle)