層 hanja, meaning story, read 층 (cheung)

Reading

층cheung

story, layer, floor, stratum

층 층cheung cheung

Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 층 (cheung) is the Korean for story, and 층 (cheung) is the reading. Say 층 층 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.

Strokes
15
Radical
⼫ 44
Beyond radical
12
Mandarin
céng
Japanese on
sou
Japanese kun
kasanaru

Vocabulary

Words that use 層

Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.

上層상층sangcheung

superstratum

Character by character top + story

Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.