Japanese symbol for “surveying”
測量
そくりょう
Romaji: sokuryou
measurement; surveying
In Japanese, surveying is 測量, read そくりょう (sokuryou).
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Meanings
- n, vs, vt measurement; surveying
Kanji and stroke order
Other Japanese words for “surveying”
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 測量学 | そくりょうがく sokuryougaku | surveying; land surveying |
| 回視 | かいし kaishi | looking around; surveying |
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 観測 | かんそく kansoku | observation; survey; measurement |
| 測定 | そくてい sokutei | measurement |
| 推測 | すいそく suisoku | guess; conjecture |
| 予測 | よそく yosoku | prediction; estimation |
| 計測 | けいそく keisoku | measuring; measurement |
| 大量 | たいりょう tairyou | large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction) |
| 重量 | じゅうりょう juuryou | weight |
| 数量 | すうりょう suuryou | quantity; volume; amount |
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.