杳 — 8 strokes / Radical「木」
道1University / general (hardest) / 8 strokes / Radical「木」
- On
- ヨウよう · yō
- Kun
- くら.い・はるかkura.i · haruka
- Meaning
- dim; far off
Stroke order
Origin
The sun 日 beneath a tree 木: the sun hidden below the trees and dark; also far off.
Compounds
- 杳としてようとして
with no trace; utterly unknown
- 杳然ようぜん
far off and dim
Example
その後の消息は杳として知れない。
Nothing has been heard of them since.
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)