Kanji
曽
kanji character
formerly
once
before
ever
never
ex-
曽 kanji-曽 formerly, once, before, ever, never, ex-
曽
Meaning
formerly once before
Readings
Kun'yomi
- かつ て once
- かつて
- すなわち
On'yomi
- そう そん great-grandchild
- そう ゆう former visit
- そう そふ great-grandfather
- くま そ Kumaso (ancient Japanese people who lived in southern Kyushu)
- き そ じ Kiso valley section of the Nakasendo
- びん そ ぎ cutting a person's sidelocks
- ぞう
Practice Writing
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Common Words
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曽 てonce, before, formerly... -
曽 孫 great-grandchild -
曽 great (i.e. great-grandson, great-grandmother) -
曽 遊 former visit -
熊 曽 Kumaso (ancient Japanese people who lived in southern Kyushu), Kumaso (former province located in present-day Miyazaki Prefecture) -
曽 祖 父 great-grandfather, great-granddad, great-grandad -
曽 祖 母 great-grandmother, great-grandma -
白 檜 曽 Veitch's silver fir (Abies veitchii) -
曽 祖 父 母 great-grandparents -
曽 我 物 語 Soga Monogatari (war chronicle) -
未 曽 有 unprecedented, unheard-of, record-breaking -
木 曽 馬 Kiso horse (Japanese indigenous horse breed), kisouma -
木 曽 路 Kiso valley section of the Nakasendo -
鬢 曽 木 cutting a person's sidelocks, evenly cut sidelocks (symbol of adulthood for noblewomen in the Heian era), ritual of cutting the sidelocks (coming-of-age ceremony for women from about 1568-1867) -
佐 曽 羅 incense variety used in kōdō (orig. from India) -
大 白 檜 曽 Maries' fir (Abies mariesii) -
曽 お祖 父 さんgreat-grandfather -
曽 お祖 母 さんgreat-grandmother -
伊 曽 保 物 語 Aesop's Fables (published initially by the Jesuits in 1593)