Kanji1 / 4
双 kanji
pair, set, comparison, counter for pairs
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ソウ
Kun readings
ふたたぐいならぶふたつ
Variant forms
雙Words with 双
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —双児twins
- —双調(in Japan) 6th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. G); sōjō mode (one of the six main gagaku modes)
- —八双style of sword fighting
- —双星amphiaster; diaster; double star; visual double
- —双鬢side locks
- —双頬both cheeks
- —双務bilaterality (e.g. of a contract); two-sidedness (e.g. of a treaty)
- —双樹two trees; sal tree (Shorea robusta); saul
- —双峰two-humped; two-peaked; bimodal
- —双親both parents
- —双極having two poles; bipolar
- —双喜double happiness (Chinese ornamental symbol)
- —双声repeated initials (in Chinese poetry); recurring initials
- —双数dual; dual number
- —双胎twin pregnancy; twin (fetus)
- —双腕two arms; both arms
- —双丘breasts; buttocks; two hills
- —双糸two ply yarn
- —双剣(wielding) dual swords (esp. in fiction); twin swords; pair of Chinese straight swords wielded simultaneously (oft. sharing a single scabbard)
- —双刀pair of single-edged swords; dual blades; twin swords