翔: kanji meaning and names
Meanings, readings and the names that use it.
Kanji facts
- Meaning
- soar, fly
- On readings (katakana)
- ショウ
- Kun readings (hiragana)
- かけ.る、と.ぶ
- Readings used in names (nanori)
- か
- Strokes
- 12
- Grade
- 9: jinmeiyō kanji, approved for use in names
- Newspaper frequency rank
- 1936 of the 2,500 kanji most used in newspapers
- Korean reading (hangul)
- 상
In kun readings a dot separates the stem from the ending that is written in hiragana after the kanji (ひと.つ), and a hyphen marks a prefix or a suffix (ひと-).
Names that use 翔
These names have a written form that contains this kanji.