肆 — 13 strokes ／ Radical「聿」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 13 strokes ／ Radical「聿」
- On
- シ
- Kun
- つら.ねる・ほしいまま・みせ
- Meaning
- to give free rein; a shop
Origin
Long 長 with brush 聿: goods laid out at length, hence a shop; also to give free rein. It serves as the formal form of “four”.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 書肆しょし
a bookshop
- 放肆ほうし
unrestrained
Example
書肆に立ち寄って本を探す。
They stop at the bookshop and look for a book.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)