ケン, つるぎ
sabre, sword, blade, clock hand

This kanji has 10 strokes: 2 in the "sword" radical (かたな) and 8 other strokes.

Sample compounds (19) :


  1. けん
    sword, sabre, blade, bayonet, sting, clock hand

  2. けんげき
    sword play, samurai drama

  3. けんごう
    master fencer

  4. はいけん
    (vs) wearing a sword

  5. けんさき
    point of a sword

  6. とうけん
    swords, cold steel

  7. しんけん
    (an) seriousness, earnestness

  8. けんし
    fencer

  9. たいけん
    (vs) wearing a sword, armed with a sword

  10. けんじゅつ
    fencing

  11. つるぎをぬく
    to draw a sword

  12. ぼっけん
    bokken, wooden sword

  13. けんだま
    cup-and-ball game

  14. たんけん
    dagger, hour hand

  15. けんつく
    rough scolding

  16. けんぶ
    sword dance

  17. けんまく
    threatening attitude

  18. けんどう
    kendo, swordmanship, fencing

  19. けんなん
    the calamity of being killed by the sword
Kanji Character : 剣
Kuten Encoding : 2385
SJIS Encoding : 3775
Unicode Encoding : 5263
Old Nelson Index : 696
Radical Number : 18
Frequency Ranking : 1177
Gakken Index : 1248
Grade Level : 8
Halpern Index : 1672
Heisig Index : 1671
Henshall Index : 1214
New Nelson Index : 498
O'Neil Index : 1151
Stroke Count : 10
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji Dictionary Index : 2f8.5
Spahn & Hadamitzky Radical Strokes : 2
Spahn & Hadamitzky Other Strokes : 8
Spahn & Hadamitzky Character ID : f
Spahn & Hadamitzky kanji Number : 5
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji & Kana Index : 879
SKIP Code : 1-8-2
De Roo Code : 2843
Four Corner Code : 8250.0
Korean reading : geom
Pinyin reading : jian4
Morohashi Index String : 2076
Morohashi Volume and Page String : 2.0295
Morohashi Index Number : 2076
Morohashi Page : 295
Morohashi Volume : 2
Cross Index Codes
  1. J05178
  2. J05179
  3. J0517A
  4. J0517B
  5. J06E5F
Dictionary Codes
  1. R2843
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