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菖 = 昌 + 艹

菖 is a Japanese kanji written with 11 strokes, listed here under the keyword “iris”. It is built from 昌 (prosperous) and 艹 (mugwort). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 2452.

Keyword
iris
RTK frame
2452
Strokes
11
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
ショウ
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
радужка
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
菖 iris

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 昌 prosperous
  2. 艹 mugwort

How to find 菖 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “prosperous” + “mugwort”. 菖 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

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