# 創 — Create

Frequency rank 874 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Mid-frequency: not on every page, but regular in books and magazines.

More common than 窓 (Window), less common than 依 (Reliant).

- On’yomi: そう
- Kun’yomi: つく
- Radical: 刀 Knife (Kangxi 18)
- Frequency path: Level VII of XX

A warehouse on the left is cut by a sword on the right — a sword slashes through a warehouse wall, creating an opening — from destruction comes new space to create.

In words:

- 創作 そうさく — production,literary creation,work
- 創立 そうりつ — establishment;founding;organization
- 創造 そうぞう — creation

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