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券 — 8 strokes ／ Radical「刀」

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5Elementary year 6 ／ 8 strokes ／ Radical「刀」
On
ケンけん · ken
Kun
—
Meaning
ticket; certificate

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

Two hands with 刀 "knife"; a tally cut in two so each side keeps a half — hence "ticket, certificate."

OFFICIAL READINGS

Readings and examples

Onケンけんken乗車券じょうしゃけん旅券りょけん債券さいけん

Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 乗車券じょうしゃけん

    passenger ticket

  • 入場券にゅうじょうけん

    admission ticket

More words with this kanji

  • 沽券こけん

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

入場(にゅうじょう)券(けん)を買(か)って中(なか)に入(はい)った。

I bought an admission ticket and went in.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

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CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 刀Map of reading ケンAll maps

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

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