挿 — 10 strokes ／ Radical「扌」
道準2High school level ／ 10 strokes ／ Radical「扌」
- On
- ソウそう · sō
- Kun
- さ.す・はさ.むsa.su · hasa.mu
- Meaning
- insert; put in
Stroke order
Origin
Hand plus a pestle driven into a mortar: to push something in with the hand.
Readings and examples
| Onソウそうsō | 挿入そうにゅう挿話そうわ |
|---|---|
| Kunさすsasu | 挿すさす挿絵さしえ挿し木さしき Compare: 差す・刺す・指す |
Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.
Compounds
- 挿入そうにゅう
insertion
- 挿絵さしえ
illustration
- 半挿はんぞう
Example
本文に写真を一枚挿入した。
I inserted one photograph into the text.
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)