Kanji

Level: N1 Strokes: 11

曽

Meaning in English

formerly, once, before

Readings

Onyomi: ソウ, ソ, ゾウ Kunyomi: かつ, かつて, すなわち Romaji: sou, so, zou / katsu, katsute, sunawachi

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曽

Translations in other languages:

Portuguese antigamente, uma vez, antes

Spanish anteriormente, una vez, antes

Korean 예전에, 한때, 이전에

French autrefois, une fois, avant

Italian precedentemente, una volta, prima

German früher, einst, vorher

Indonesian dahulu, pernah, sebelum

★ Vietnamese trước đây, một lần, trước

Thai ก่อนหน้านี้, ครั้งหนึ่ง, ก่อนหน้า

Kanji

Related kanji

N1 兼 ken / ka.neru, -ka.neru concurrently, and, beforehand N1 典 ten, den code, ceremony, law N3 具 gu / sona.eru, tsubusa.ni tool, utensil, means N2 兵 hei, hyou / tsuwamono soldier, private, troops N3 共 kyou / tomo, tomo.ni, -domo together, both, neither N4 公 kou, ku / ooyake public, prince, official N5 六 roku, riku / mu, mu.tsu, mutsu.tsu, mui six, six, seis N5 八 hachi / ya, ya.tsu, yatsu.tsu, you eight, eight radical (no. 12), huit