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件 — 6 strokes ／ Radical「亻」

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6Elementary year 5 ／ 6 strokes ／ Radical「亻」
On
ケンけん · ken
Kun
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Meaning
matter; case; counter for items

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

亻 "person" plus 牛 "cow"; people counting cattle one by one — hence "matter, case, a counter."

OFFICIAL READINGS

Readings and examples

Onケンけんken件数けんすう事件じけん条件じょうけん

Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 事件じけん

    incident; case

  • 用件ようけん

    business; matter to attend to

More words with this kanji

  • 条件じょうけん

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

その事件(じけん)を新聞(しんぶん)で知(し)った。

I learned about that incident in the newspaper.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

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CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 亻Map of reading ケンAll maps

Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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