12 strokes
Jinmeiyou kanji used in names
Kentei exam level Pre-1

talk, chat, chatter

Kun'yomi
  • しゃ
    to talk
  • ついば
On'yomi
  • チョウ
  • トウ

Main Radical

(KanXi)

Reading Commonality

しゃべ 93.1%
チョウ 6.9%

Character Breakdown

talk, chat, chatter
しゃべ.る チョウ トウ (Kentei Pre-1)
mouth
くち コウ ク (1st, N4)
table, flat pieces of wood, slip
ヨウ うすいきふだ まど
generation, world, society
セ よ セイ (3rd, N4)
twenty
にじゅう ジュウ ニュウ (Kentei Pre-1)
fishhook radical(乙) variant
tree, wood
き モク こ- (1st, N5)

References

Unicode hex code 558B
JIS X 0208 1-35-93
Nelson, A. Classic Nelson 959
Haig, J. New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary 850
Halpern, J. Kodansha Kanji Dictionary 665
Halpern, J. Kanji Learners Dictionary (Kodansha), 2nd edition (2013) 502
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji 2158
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji, Sixth Ed. 2280
Morohashi Daikanwajiten 3917
Tuttle Dictionary Descriptor Code 3d9.10
Four corner code 6409.4