A Bag
A Ball
A Base in Baseball
A Beat
A Beginning or a Sequence
A Big River
A Bitter Feeling
A Box
A Branch
A Branch, a Section, or Reason
A Break or a Recess
A Brief Extract
A Brush
A Bureau
A Can or a Tin
A Cape
A Card, a Label, or a Bank Note
A Castle
A Chapter
A Chinese Big River
A Chinese Quince or How?
A Civil Servant
A Class or a Group
A Column or a Row
A Country
A County
A Course or a Category
A Cow, a Bull or an Ox
A Crime or Guilt
A Criterion
A Cup of a Drink
A Cup of a Drink (Reisho)
A Customer or a Visitor
A Day of the Week
A Day or the Sun
A Desire
A Desk
A Dipper
A Dot, a Spot or a Point
A Downfall
A Drum
A Fabrication
A Fabrication (Sosho)
A Faction
A Fence or a Hedge
A Festival
A Field Plain and Wild
A Figure or a Shape
A Firefly
A Fireplace or a Furnace
A Folding Fan
A Form of Address or the State of Affairs
A Full One Inch Long
A Gazebo
A Good Job
A Grandchild
A Gun or a Cannon
A Halberd
A Hall
A Hole
A Hole Dug in the Earth
A Hole or Confucius
A Hole or Confucius (Sosho)
A Horse
A House or a Dwelling
A Hundred Million
A Husk or a Shell
A Japanese Ceder
A Japanese Ceder (Sosho)
A Job or a Profession
A Knot
A Lake
A Lawn or the Grass
A Letter or Appearance
A Little
A Loaf of Bread
A Long Time Ago
A Machine or a Chance
A Mansion
A Mark
A Master, a Ruler, a Lord, or You
A Medical Doctor
A Member
A Monk or a Boy
A Monk or a Boy (Reisho)
A Monkey
A Mosquito
A Nest
A Nun
A Page
A Pair
A Palace or a Government Office
A Palace That Has Rooms
A Penalty
A Person
A Picture
A Picture or a Figure
A Picture or a Figure (Sosho)
A Piece of Cloth
A Pillar
A Pivotal Point
A Plain or the Origin
A Plan, a Scheme, or a Plot
A Plate
A Polite Prefix
A Political Party
A Pond
A Potato
A Price
A Private School
A Range or a Region
A Residence
A Ring
A Role
A Roof or a House
A Room
A Sacrifice
A School or to Compare
A Seat
A Seed
A Seedling
A Servant, a Slave, or Cubic Soybean Curd
A Sheep
A Shell of a Tortoise or First
A Shield
A Shining Mountain Stream
A Ship
A Short Path or a Diameter
A Slope
A Spring of Water
A Standing Tree
A State or a Province
A Stem
A Step
A Store
A Suburb
A Swamp
A Sword or a Rapier
A Symbol
A System
A System (Sosho)
A Tally
A Ticket
A Tray
A Tune or A Bend
A View, a Sight, or an Appearance
A Village
A Vote
A Ward, a District, or an Area
A Waterfall
A Well
A Whale
A Wind Instrument
A Window
Ability or Noh
About Five Gallons
About the Average and All
About, Abridged, or Frugal
Absolute or Extinct
Accommodation
Acid or Sour
Add, Join or Canada
Admonitions
Affluence
Again
Agriculture
Aiming at and Constant
Alcoholic Drink or Sake
Alike
All
Along
Already or All
Also and Similarly
Alteration or -ize
Always
Amiable
Amount
An Abbreviation or Omission
An Ambition
An Ambition (Sosho)
An Arc
An Artisan
An Artisan (Sosho)
An Assistant
An Authoritative Book
An Edition or a Plate
An Egg
An Elephant
An Emperor
An Example
An Extent
An Infant
An Inn or A Hotel
An Island
An Item or a Clause
An Ocean
An Ogre
Ancestors
And
And (Sosho)
Anger
Angle or Horn
Announcement
Another House or Majestic
Another or Separation
Answer
Answer (Sosho)
Anything Valuable
Apprehension
Army
Around or All Around
Arrow
Art
As It Is
Ash
Autumn
Back or After
Bad
Bad Luck or Anything You Want to Blame
Bad Luck That Haunts Some People
Bamboo
Barley, Wheat, Oats or Rye
Base
Bead
Bean
Beautiful, Well-balanced and Excellent
Beauty
Beauty (Sosho)
Beforehand
Belief
Benefit or Profit
Benevolence
Beside or Besides
Between Mountains
Between or Among
Big
Bird
Bitter and Hard or Spicy
Bitterness or Suffering
Black
Blessedness
Blessing
Blessing (Gyosho)
Blessing (Sosho)
Blind
Blood
Blue
Board
Body
Boisterous
Boisterous (Sosho)
Bones
Book
Border or Boundary
Both
Bottom
Bounce
Bounce (Sosho)
Boundary
Bow
Bowing, Etiquette or Thanks
Brains
Brave
Breath
Bridge
Bright
Brilliant, Intelligent, or English
Broad and Comprehensive
Brown or Tea
Bud
Buddha or France
Bunch
Bureaucrats
Busy
By the Water
Calendar
Capital
Car
Case
Cat
Cause
Cause or Connected
Ceremony, Method, or Formula
Certain
Changing Guards
Character
Cheerful or Bright
Cherry
Chic or Pure
Child and the Rat
Children
Choked with Nitrogen
Circle
Circle (Sosho)
Clear
Closeness, Relationship, or the Middle Part of a Thing
Cloth
Clothes
Clothing, Swallowing, or Submission
Cloud
Cloudy
Coal
Cold
Color
Colorful
Comical and Playful
Commanding or Impending
Complete or an End
Complete or Composed
Confectionery or Something You Eat for Snacks
Consideration
Continued
Control or a System
Convenience and Correspondence
Cool
Cool or Refreshing
Correct
Correction
Cotton
Counterpart or Phase
Court
Cowherd or Shepherd
Cozy
Craft or Engineering
Crazy
Crimson
Crown
Cry
Cultivated Fields
Dangerous
Dare to Do Something
Dark
Daylight
Death or To Stop Living
Deep
Degree
Destiny or To Carry
Difficult
Dirty
Disease or Ailments
Distance
Disturbance
Ditto
Dog
Done
Door
Double
Down, Under or Lower
Down, Under or Lower (Gyosho)
Down, Under or Lower (Sosho)
Downtown
Dragon
Dragon (Reisho)
Dragon (Sosho 1)
Dragon (Sosho 2)
Dragon (Tensho)
Drama or Dramatic
Dread
Dream
Dried Up
Dry
Each
Each Other
Ear
Early
Earth
Ease or Change
East
Edge
Effective
Eight
Elder Brother
Elder Sister
Embellishments
Employed or to Work
End
Enjoyment
Equal
Equal (Gyosho)
Equal (Sosho)
Equalized
Equivalence or Resistance
Especially
Europe
Evening
Event or Thing
Everlasting
Every
Everybody or All
Evidence or Sign
Evil
Excellent, Outstanding, and Preeminent
Except or To Remove
Excessively
Existent or Extant
Expansion
Eye
Faint or Slight
Family Name
Family Name
Far
Fat or Grease
Fat or Thick
Father
Fear
Feather
Feeling, Desiring, or Praying
Felicitations
Fence or Surroundings
Fervent
Field
Fierce
Filial Piety
Fine
Fire
Fish
Fish (Sosho)
Fishing
Five
Flat
Flower
Flower (Sosho)
Flowery Flowers
Folks or People
Fond or Favorite
Foot
Footprints
For a Long Time
For a Long Time (Sosho1)
For a Long Time (Sosho2)
For Gentlemen
Forking, Branching, and Diverging
Foundation
Four
Fragrant
fragrant
Friend
Front or Before
Front or Outside
Frost
Fruit or Reality
Fruit or Results
Fund
Gain
Garden
Gate
Giant
Give
God
Gold
Good Luck
Good, Fine, or Favorable
Good, Fine, or Superior
Goundwork
Grains or Granules
Grass
Gratitude for What You Owe to Somebody
Green
Greens
Gregarious
Group
Gun
Half
Half a Gallon
Han or Chinese
Hand
Happy
Happy Greeting
Hard and Solid
Harm
Harmonious
Harvested Rice
He or That
Healthy and Sound
Heart
Heaven
Heavy
Hemp
Hermit
High
High or a Table
Hill (Reisho)
Hill (Sosho)
Hills or Heights
History
Holy
Hope or Rare
Hope or to Look Out
Hot Water
How the Heart Feels in the Fall
Human
Human Bonds and Ties
Hundred
Hurry
Husband
I, myself
Ice
Illusion
Immediately
In a Formal Manner
In an Orderly Fashion
In Bloom
In Bloom (Sosho)
In Order
In the Beginning
Indigo
Individual
Infantile or Very Young
Inferior
Insect or Worm
Inside
Inside (Sosho1)
Inside (Sosho2)
Intelligence and Knowledge
Intelligence and Wisdom
Intent, What is Meant, or What is Thought
Interest
Interior
Interpretation
Intestines
Inverse or Reverse
Inviting the Sun
Involvement
Iron
It Covers Your Feet
Item
Japanese Apricot or Plum called Ume
Journey
Joy
Juice or Soup
Karma, Uncontrollable Feelings, Business, or Work
Keen, Quick, or Sharp
Keeping Livestock
King
Knowledge or Discernment
Kyoto or Osaka
Labor and Effort
Lamp
Land
Law
Laws as Elements of the Constitution
Lazy or Idle
Leaf
Learn
Leather or Reformation
Left
Length
Length (Reisho)
Length (Sosho)
Letter or Character
Life, an Order, or a Target
Light
Light Weight
Light, Faint, and Pale
Lightning
Limbs
Lively and Sprightly
Liver
Liver or Courage
Load
Lone or Germany
Lone or Germany (Sosho)
Long
Look
Love
Love (Sosho)
Low
Low, Humble, or Vulgar
Loyal
Lucid Accounts of History
Lungs
Luxuriant
Magic or an Art
Main or Master
Main or Master (Sosho)
Mainly Male
Makeshift or Hypothetical
Man
Many or Much
Market or City
Martial or Powerful
Martyrdom
Materials
Meat
Medicine
Meeting
Middle
Milk
Mind and Spirit
Mind and Spirit (Sosho)
Mind and Spirit (Tensho)
Miscellany
Morning
Mother
Mountain
Mouth
Mules or Useless Things
Muscle
My Country
Nail
Name
Name, Fame, or Balanced
Narrow
Near
Near (Sosho)
Neatly Arranged
Necessarily or Always
Neck
Needle
Negative
New or Neo-
Next
Night
Nine
Nine (Sosho)
Noble or Valuable
Noble, Lofty, or High
Noon or the Horse
North
Nose
Not to Mention the Way Things Are
Not Yet
Not, Wrong or Mistake
Nothing
Nothing (Gyosho)
Nothing (Sosho)
Nourishment
Now
Number 10,000
Number 10,000 (Reisho)
Number 10,000 (Sosho)
Number or Issue
Numbers or Several
Object or Thing
Odd or Strange
Offerings and Followers
Offshore
Oil
Old
Old Capital
Old Customs or a Bad Accident
Old Customs or a Bad Accident (Sosho)
Old or Former
Omen or Trillion
On a Track
One
One (Reisho)
One (Sosho)
One Side
One Side (Sosho)
One’s Flesh, Body, and Self
One’s Age or One Year
One’s Parent’s Elder Brother etc.
One’s Parent’s Younger Brother
Oneself
Only Free of Charge
Only or But
Orange
Orders
Organizing Threads or 100 Years
Origin
Other
Our Skin
Out
Outer Space
Outside
Over or Upper
Over or Upper (Gyosho)
Over or Upper (Reisho)
Over or Upper (Sosho)
Pair
Paper
Part
Patience, Brutality or Secrecy
Peaceful
Peach
Perplexity
Phrase
Pile
Pine
Place
Plan or Sum
Planting
Poetry
Point Zero Zero One
Poison
Politics or Government
Positive
Post Station
Powder
Power
Prayer
Precepts or Japanese Readings
Precepts or Japanese Readings (Sosho)
Prefecture
Pressure
Princess
Private
Professional
Prohibition
Proof
Propagation
Property
Prosperity
Public
Pulse
Pure
Purple
Quality
Question
Questions
Quiet and Calm
Quiet Deep Mysterious Black
Rain
Rainbow
Ranking in Order
Reach
Reason or Justice
Record
Red
Red Lead
Red Lead (Sosho)
Redundant
Regret
Rejoice or Celebrate
Related to Relations
Remnant or Remainder
Replacement
Residual
Rice Field
Rice or a Meal
Rice or America
Right
Righteousness
River
Road
Roots
Rough
Rubia
Rules or to Follow a Rule
Rules or to Follow a Rule (Sosho)
Run
Sad
Sadness
Sagacious
Salt
Same
Samurai
Samurai or to Serve
Scarce
Scenery or Sunlight
Seal, Mark, or India
Seasonal
Secret or Hidden
Self
Selling Something
Sentiment
Serving Subject
Seven
Seven (Reisho)
Seven (Sosho)
Shade or Yin
Shadow
Shape
Shellfish
Short
Side
Silk
Silver
Simple or Naïve
Singing a Song
Single
Six
Skillful
Skin
Sky
Slanting
Slavery Servant
Sleepy
Slowly
Small
Smell
Smoke
Snow
Snow Moon
Society
Soil or Earth
Soldier
Solution
Solution (Sosho)
Something Built on Religious Theories
Something Weird or Dubious
Soul
Sound
South
Sparkle
Special
Specialization
Speech
Spirit
Spring
Star
Station
Status or Position
Status, a State or a Standard
Step
Stocks or Shares
Stone
Straight
Strain
Strange or Indescribably Good
String
Stroke
Strong
Sturdy
Stylish but Coming After Something Else
Stylish but Coming After Something Else (Sosho)
Subtraction or Difference
Summer
Sun or Yang
Sunrise
Supplement
Surface
Sweat
Sweet or Spoiling
Swiftly or Swift
Swiftly or Swift (Sosho)
Sword
Syndrome
T
T (Reisho)
T (Sosho)
Talent
Talk
Target or -al, -ive, etc.
Taste
Tasty
Tax
Technique
Teeth
Temple
Ten
Ten Days or Fresh
Ten Inches
Text
The “A” of Asia
The Back
The Beads of a Rosary
The Belly
The Cock
The Edge of Something
The Floor of a Room
The Frame of Something
The Head
The Moon
The Number of Animals
The Number of Books
The Number of Something Thin
The Ox
The Rabbit
The Ridge of Mountains
The Right Way
The Sea
The Shore
The Stomach
The Tang Dynasty or a Foreign Country
The Thumb and Fingers, or to Point
The Top of Something
The Trunk of a Tree
The Wife of a Man
The Wife of a Prince
Thick
Thin or Fine
Third
Thousand
Thread
Three
Three (Reisho)
Three (Sosho)
Three Point Three Square Meters
Thriving or Successful
Thunder
Time
Tip or Ahead
To
To Accompany
To Accuse
To Admit or to Approve
To Age
To Alienate
To Alter or to Replace
To Appreciate One’s Labor
To Array Averages
To Assess
To Attach or to Stick To
To Attack
To Attack to Punish
To Attempt
To Author
To Bathe
To Be Born and to Grow Up
To Be Given or to Inherit
To be Present or There is Something
To Become Dense
To Bend or Anti-
To Blow
To Brave Danger
To Break Into Pieces
To Breathe In
To Breathe Out
To Build
To Burn
To Bury or to Fill
To Buy
To Calculate
To Call on or to Inquire
To Call or to Exhale
To Carve Something
To Cease to Exist
To Celebrate or to Congratulate
To Change
To Chase
To Choose or to Pick Out
To Collect or to Gather
To Come
To Come Hither
To Commit a Crime
To Compare
To Compel
To Conceive or to Impregnate
To Confer or to Describe
To Consider Taboo
To Contain or to Form
To Contend, to Contest, or to Compete
To Cook Rice
To Cooperate
To Copy
To Correct, to Learn or to Adorn
To Create
To Cultivate
To Cut
To Cut Down Trees or to Attack
To Daclare or the Monkey
To Decay
To Decide
To Decide Where
To Decorate
To Defeat or to Make a Journey
To Delete
To Descend, to Put Down, or to Fall
To Describe
To Dispense
To Distribute
To Divide
To Divide to Analyze
To Do or to Work for People
To Do Something Humbly
To Do Something in Addition to Another
To Do, to Achieve, or to Do for Somebody
To Draw
To Drink
To Drop or to Droop
To Dwell
To Dye
To Eat
To Encourage or to Strive
To End
To Enter
To Entrust
To Evaluate or to Assess
To Exhaust or to Dedicate
To Exist
To Explain
To Explain (Sosho)
To Extend
To Fall Ill
To Fall in Love
To Feel
To Fill In
To Finish a School or the Ranks
To Finish Doing Something or to Putting Away
To Float
To Flow
To Fly
To Fold or to Break
To Forget
To Forgive
To Found
To Freeze
To Get Fat or to Fertilize
To Get Over
To Get Over (Sosho)
To Get Up
To Get, to Gain, to Become Less, or to End
To Give (Sosho)
To Give Birth
To Give Humbly
To Go
To Go Across
To Go Around or Occasions
To Go By
To Go Home
To Go or to Leave
To Govern or to Administer
To Govern or to Cure
To Guard
To Guess or to Recommend
To Guess Right
To Hang or to Multiply
To Have
To Heat Food
To Help
To Help or to Intermediate
To Hit
To Humbly Accept or to Inherit
To Hunt for Something
To Impede
To Indicate
To Indict
To Infringe
To Intersect
To Introduce Somebody to Another
To Invite
To Judge
To Jump
To Keep Having a Heavy Load
To Keep or to Protect
To Lack
To Laugh
To Leap
To Leap (Gyosho)
To Leave
To Lend
To License, To Exempt or to Escape
To Lie in a Row, to Take, or to Bring
To Limit
To Live
To Look Up
To Look Up (Sosho)
To Lose
To Lose and to Defeat
To Lose, to Fail, to Collapse, or to Rot
To Make
To Make a Mistake
To Make an Oath
To Make or to Build
To Make Use Of
To Manage
To Match
To Measure
To Merge
To Mourn or to Condole
To Move
To Move (Gyosho)
To Mow
To Obey
To Occupy or to Tell Your Fortune
To Omit Something or to Reflect on Oneself
To Paint
To Pass By
To Pass Through, to Exceed, or to Spend
To Pay
To Pay Fees or Taxes
To Perform
To Pierce
To Pioneer or to Collect a Lot of Things
To Plant
To Play Music
To Pour or an Annotation
To Present
To Print
To Protect
To Publish
To Pull or to Draw
To Punch
To Purify or to Cleanse
To Raise or to Nurture
To Reach or to Deliver
To Reach or to Spread
To Reach the Limit
To Read
To Recede
To Receive
To Recommend or to Encourage
To Reflect
To Relax
To Release
To Renew
To Repress or to Restrain
To Request or to Ask
To Request or to Rely on
To Resemble
To Resist
To Respect
To Respect or to Value
To Respond
To Retain
To Return
To Return or to Restore
To Reveal
To Ride
To Roast, to Grill, to Bake or to Burn
To Roll
To Rule
To Save
To Say
To Seal or to Enclose
To Sell
To Send
To Serve
To Sharpen
To Sharpen or to Reduce
To Shine
To Shoulder
To Shout
To Shut Up
To Sink
To Sovereign or to Unite
To Spend
To Split
To Split or to Dissect
To Spread As Far As It Reaches
To Sprinkle or to Scatter
To Stand
To Start
To Start Working
To Stay or to Settle
To Steal
To Step On
To Stick, to Stab, to Spear, or to Pierce
To Stop
To Stretch
To Strike
To Strive
To Stub or to Strike
To Study
To Summon
To Supply or to Give
To Support or to Branch Off
To Swim
To Take or to Remove
To Take Somebody Captive
To Take Somebody Captive (Sosho)
To Teach
To Tear or to Rip
To Test
To Think or to Consider
To Think or to Ponder
To Think, to Suppose, or to Guess
To Throw
To Tie or to Conclude
To Trade
To Turn Over
To Urge
To Use
To View or to Watch
To Wait
To Wash
To Watch or to Monitor
To Wear or to Reach
To Welcome
To Welcome (Sosho)
To Wither
To Worship
To Wrap
To Write
Together
Tolerably Fair
Tomorrow or Next
Tongue
Toward Infinity
Toward or Yonder
Town
Trade
Transmission
Transparent
Treasure
Tree
Trembling
Truth
Tuft
Twilight
Two
Two or Double
Type
Un-
Un- (Reisho)
Universally
Unpretentious
Unusual or Strange
Valley
Value
Vapor
Vast, Endless, or Lamentable
Vice- or to Assist Somebody
Violent
Virtue
Voice
Walking or in Vain
War
Warm or Temperature
Warm or to Heat
Water
Wave
Wavering
Way
Weak
Wealth
Week
West
What?
Whence
Where Your Voice is Heard
White
Whole
Wholesale
Wide
Widespread
Willow
Wind
Winter
Wise and Smart
Wolf
Wolf (Gyosho)
Wolf (Sosho)
Woman
Woods or a Grove
Wool or Hair
Word
Words for Poetry
Words from the Emperor
Words or to Quit a Job
World
World (Gyosho)
World (Reisho)
World (Sosho)
Year
Yellow
Yen
Yesterday
Young
Young Buds or Charming
Younger Brother
Younger Sister
Yummy or the Gist
Zen
Basic Japanese Characters
Japanese Calligraphy Art by Japanese Calligrapher Nao
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What would be the kanji for “joyous or joyful journey” or “taking/finding joy in the journey”? Is there a single character to express that or is it joy plus something else? Thanks
Hello!
Thank you for dropping by. It’s an interesting question. As far as I know, there is no single word or kanji for those meanings. It seems ancient Japanese people tended to find loneliness in the journey.
I would translate “joyful journey” as “tanoshii tabi” (楽しい旅) and “finding joy in the journey” as “tabini tanoshisa wo miidasu” (旅に楽しさを見いだす).
We haven’t posted tabi (journey) yet.
Tanoshii (enjoyment)
is here -> http://wp.me/pAlaB-eE
And we are going to post a kanji for miidasu or mitsukeru (to find) on Friday.
As for “finding joy in the journey,” another phrase came to me. If it can sound like a title, “tabi ni yorokobi hakken (旅に喜び発見)” would be nice, too.
Yorokobi (joy) is posted here -> http://wp.me/pAlaB-dJ
Hakken means finding or discovery.
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It’s very hard to find these symbols on the internet along with the meaning and I’m so glad I stumbled upon your site
Is there a Kanji for the word “wolf” or “greywolf”? I’d love to get that as a tattoo one day, as they are my favorite animal.
Hi!
Thank you for your request. I will ask Nao to draw a Kanji for the word “wolf.” Perhaps, we can upload it next week.
Please visit us again.
i would love to see more sosho characters, they are so beautiful, and very interesting when seen side by side to the less cursive versions.
Thank you, sara.
Placing “side by side” is a good idea. I will do it from next time.
And I’ll also ask Nao to write more sosho characters.
hi,
I was wondering if you could do ‘courage’ especially in sosho style which looks amazing.
I found ‘to get over’ on your site and wondered if you have a sosho version of that to?
(I have overcome a major illness and was looking for something in kanji that would represent this)
Thanks
James
my best mate wanted to know something about this, ill point him to your blog, thx
I would like that you show me the word “parents” please¡¡ thx
This is a great site. Are you still building this? If yes, can you add Respect, Trust, Honor, Communication, and Understanding.
I want to get these words tattooed including Love to symbolize what a relationship needs to flourish. Is it appropriate to get these in a line or side by side? What would be the proper placement? Thanks!