斜

音読おんよみ: シャ

訓読くんよみ: ななめ

画数かくすう: 11

部首ぶしゅ: 斗（とます）

Meaning

Diagonal / Slanting / Oblique

  • 斜ななめ — diagonal / slant
  • 斜面しゃめん — slope / incline
  • 傾斜けいしゃ — tilt / slant
  • 斜線しゃせん — diagonal line
  • 斜陽しゃよう — setting sun

斜 shows a sense of things leaning or slanting. With the radical 斗 (ladle), it suggests tilting or pouring. Combined with 余よ, it points to something “off-center” — not upright, but diagonal.

面

Think of 面めん — a surface. Add a line 線せん across it, and the surface tilts. That’s 斜 — a face set at an angle.

陽
Forms

斜陽しゃよう — the setting sun / decline

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