漢

Sino-, China

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

カン

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

N/A

Nanori (名乗り)

はん

Stroke Order

13 / 13

Information

Grade:3

Strokes:13

JLPT:N4

Frequency:1487

Vocabulary

カン

Word	Reading	Meaning
漢語	カンゴ	Japanese word of Chinese origin; Sino-Japanese word; language of the Han people; Chinese
漢字	カンジ	kanji; Chinese character
漢文	カンブン	Chinese classical writing; Chinese classics; writing composed entirely of kanji
漢和	カンワ	China and Japan; Chinese and Japanese (languages); dictionary with Japanese definitions of kanji and kanji compounds; kanji dictionary
常用漢字	ジョウヨウカンジ	jōyō kanji; kanji for common use; list of 2,136 kanji designated for common use (introduced in 1981, revised in 2010)

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
漢方薬	かんぽうやく	Chinese herbal medicine
珍紛漢紛	ちんぷんかんぷん	unintelligible language; incoherent language; talking nonsense; babble; gibberish; jargon; gobbledygook
漢方	かんぽう	traditional Chinese medicine
悪漢	あっかん	rascal; villain; scoundrel; ruffian; crook
仮名漢字変換	かなかんじへんかん	kana-kanji conversion (on a computer, etc.)

Visually Similar Kanji

These kanji are easily confused due to similar shapes

vague, obscure, desert, wide

sigh, lament, moan, grieve, sigh of admiration

tears, sympathy

happenstance, especially, intentionally, reason, cause, circumstances, the late, therefore, consequently

refreshing, nice and cool

deluge, flood, vast

concentrated, thick, dark, undiluted

lively, resuscitation, being helped, living

beauty, beautiful