Kanji N2

臓: entrails, viscera, bowels

臓 is a JLPT N2 kanji meaning entrails, viscera, bowels, written with 19 strokes. It is read ゾウ (on) and はらわた (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 6. You will see it in 心臓 (しんぞう, heart) and 内臓 (ないぞう, internal organs).

臓

Meanings

  • entrails
  • viscera
  • bowels
Strokes19
JLPT levelN2
School gradeGrade 6
Frequency#991 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • ゾウ

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • はらわた

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

Watch the stroke order

Every stroke in order, the live one in vermilion. Replay as often as you like.

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Now draw it

Trace each stroke in order. Wrong direction or wrong order gets flagged right away.

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Your turn: draw stroke 1 of 19. Start at the dot.

Common words with 臓

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 心臓しんぞう

    heart

    JLPT N3
  • 内臓ないぞう

    internal organs; viscera

    JLPT N1
  • 臓器ぞうき

    internal organs; viscera

  • 肝臓かんぞう

    liver

  • 腎臓じんぞう

    kidney

  • 心臓病しんぞうびょう

    heart disease; heart trouble; cardiopathy

  • 臓ぞう

    viscera; bowels

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0; the Spanish meanings they lack, translated by Naraio from their English, are shared under the same licence. Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY. Sentences split into words with IPADIC © NAIST and IPA, through Lindera.