Kanji · JLPT N5 · Level 7
社 company, shrine
- Meaning
- company, shrine
- On reading
- シャ
- Kun reading
- やしろ
Memory hook
The altar radical beside 土 (earth): an altar on the ground. A shrine, and from there a company. シャ. 神社 jinja, a shrine; 会社 kaisha, a company.
Words that use 社
会社
かいしゃ
company
社会
しゃかい
society
How to write 社
Stroke order · 7 strokes
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- 1. A short dot.
- 2. Horizontal, then sweep down to the left.
- 3. Vertical.
- 4. A short dot.
- 5. Horizontal.
- 6. Vertical.
- 7. Horizontal.
Stroke data from KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
General rules
- Top to bottom, left to right.
- Horizontal strokes before crossing vertical ones (十 = horizontal, then vertical).
- Outside before inside - but close a box last (口).
- A vertical that passes all the way through comes last (中).
- Left-falling diagonal before right-falling (大).
社 is taught on day 29 of the kanji course, alongside 道 車 電, with two writing passes and a short quiz.