Kanji N2

刷: printing, print, brush

刷 is a JLPT N2 kanji meaning printing, print, brush, written with 8 strokes. It is read サツ (on) and する, はく (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 4. You will see it in 印刷 (いんさつ, printing) and 刷る (する, to print).

刷

Meanings

  • printing
  • print
  • brush
Strokes8
JLPT levelN2
School gradeGrade 4
Frequency#1352 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • サツ

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

Kun reading
  • する
  • -ずり
  • -ずり
  • はく

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 8. Start at the dot.

Common words with 刷

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

  • 印刷いんさつ

    printing

    JLPT N3
  • 刷るする

    to print

    JLPT N2
  • 刷りすり

    printing

    JLPT N1
  • 刷新さっしん

    reform; renovation

  • 増刷ぞうさつ

    additional printing; additional print run

  • 凸版印刷とっぱんいんさつ

    letterpress; relief printing

  • 印刷機いんさつき

    printing press

  • 色刷りいろずり

    colour printing; color printing

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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. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.