# 送 — Send

Frequency rank 392 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 職 (Employment), less common than 早 (Early).

- On’yomi: そう
- Kun’yomi: おく
- Radical: 辵 Walk (Kangxi 162)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX
- School grade: 3
- Strokes: 9

A scooter (辶) races beneath horns (丷) poking through heaven (天) — a courier speeding a package up to the sky to send it off.

In words:

- 送る おくる — to send
- 放送 ほうそう・する — to broadcast
- 送別 そうべつ — farewell,send-off

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