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Begin with the N5 essentials — 5 kanji, about 5 minutes.

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章

JLPT N211 strokesFrequency #990Grade 3Radical: 立

ショウ

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11 strokes · ready

Watch the character build in the standard Japanese stroke sequence.

章 is built from the 立 and 早 components.

It belongs to a phonetic family with 障 and 彰 — they share the 章 component and the reading ショウ.

A common word using 章 is 文章 (ぶんしょう), meaning “sentence, text”.

Kanji that look similar include 商, 接, 産, and 粒.

Shares 章 and reads ショウ

Learn the component's reading once and the whole family comes with it.

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