ゲン, つる
bowstring, chord, hypotenuse

This kanji has 8 strokes: 3 in the "bow" radical (ゆみ) and 5 other strokes.

Sample compounds (7) :


  1. げん
    bow string, string (of guitar, violin, etc), chord (straight line joining two points on a curve)(geom), handle

  2. かげん
    (moon's) last quarter

  3. せいげん
    sine (trig)

  4. げんげつ
    crescent moon

  5. げんがく
    music for strings
  6. 調
    ちょうげん
    tuning

  7. つるおと
    sound of vibrating bowstring
Kanji Character : 弦
Kuten Encoding : 2425
SJIS Encoding : 3839
Unicode Encoding : 5f26
Old Nelson Index : 1568
Radical Number : 57
Frequency Ranking : 1523
Gakken Index : 1617
Grade Level : 8
Halpern Index : 287
Heisig Index : 1386
Henshall Index : 1228
New Nelson Index : 1688
O'Neil Index : 1345
Stroke Count : 8
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji Dictionary Index : 3h5.1
Spahn & Hadamitzky Radical Strokes : 3
Spahn & Hadamitzky Other Strokes : 5
Spahn & Hadamitzky Character ID : h
Spahn & Hadamitzky kanji Number : 1
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji & Kana Index : 1226
SKIP Code : 1-3-5
De Roo Code : 3571
Four Corner Code : 1023.2
Korean reading : hyeon
Pinyin reading : xian2
Morohashi Index String : 9754
Morohashi Volume and Page String : 4.0700
Morohashi Index Number : 9754
Morohashi Page : 700
Morohashi Volume : 4
Dictionary Codes
  1. R3571
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