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Put Send Ride Catch Mouth Seduce 召 ショウ

Kanji
Onyomi ショウ
Kunyomi め.す
English seduce, call, send for, wear, put on, ride in, buy, eat, drink, catch (cold)
Examples 召し上がる(めしあがる): to eat
召す(めす): (1) to call; to invite; to send for; to summon (2) to eat; to drink (3) to put on; to wear (4) to ride (5) to catch (a cold); to take (a bath); to tickle (one's fancy); to put on (years); to commit (seppuku) (6) to do (7) honorific suffix used after the -masu stem of a verb
JLPT Level 2
Jouyou Grade S
Frequency 1540
Components 刀: sword; saber; knife
口: mouth
Number of Strokes 5
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 30
Radical Strokes 3
Radical Reading くち・くちへん
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 会意 Compound Ideographic
Keyword seduce
Koohii Story 1 A man is easily seduced by a mouth to his "sword.".
Koohii Story 2 To seduce is to make a sword of one´s mouth.
RTK Index (new) 90

Tags: jlpt.n2, grades, kanjifreq1501-2000

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