県 — 9 strokes / Radical「目」
道8Elementary year 3 / 9 strokes / Radical「目」
- On
- ケンけん · ken
- Kun
- —
- Meaning
- prefecture
Stroke order
Origin
Originally meant 'to hang'. It came from a picture of an upside-down head hung by a cord. It then meant land connected to and hanging from the capital — today a 'prefecture'.
Readings and examples
| Onケンけんken | 県庁けんちょう県立けんりつ○○県○○けん |
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Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.
Compounds
- 県道けんどう
prefectural road
- 都道府県とどうふけん
prefectures (of Japan)
- 茨城県いばらきけん
- 愛媛県えひめけん
- 埼玉県さいたまけん
- 滋賀県しがけん
- 栃木県とちぎけん
- 山梨県やまなしけん
Example
ぼくは となりの 県に すんでいる。
I live in the next prefecture.
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
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Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)