曽

Derived characters

 * 僧 憎 増 層 噌

Descendants

 * そ
 * ソ

Glyph origin
Japanese shinjitai, used in compound characters such as 増 (from 増).

Usage notes
This character was added to the Jōyō kanji list in 2010 and adopted this simplified form. Before 2010 the unsimplified form was the, and the simplified form  was a.

Prefix

 * 1) great- (e.g. great-grandmother)