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県 — 9 strokes / Radical「目」

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On
ケンけん · ken
Kun
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Meaning
prefecture

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

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'.

OFFICIAL READINGS

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

Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 県道けんどう

    prefectural road

  • 都道府県とどうふけん

    prefectures (of Japan)

More words with this kanji

  • 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

Example

A sentence using this kanji

ぼくは となりの 県(けん)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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CompoundRadicalReading

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