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藩

clan
Stroke count: 18

Readings

On readingハン

Meanings

  1. clanRtK
    江戸時代に、各藩の奨励策によって、全国各地に地場産業が興った。Local industry flourished throughout the land in the Edo period thanks to the promotional efforts by each clan.tatoeba
    岡山藩の神社合祀Shrine merger of the Okayama Domainwiki
  2. enclosure
  1. han (estate of a daimyo in the Edo and early Meiji periods)
  2. feudal domain
  3. fief
  4. province

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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flowers (艹) · water (水) · water droplets (氵) · water pistol (氵) · dice · animal tracks · drop (丶) · rice (米) · rice field (田) · brains

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 2061

Compound words

岡山藩の神社合祀
Shrine merger of the Okayama Domainwiki

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These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

町域にあった三根山藩は長岡藩に米百俵を送ったことで有名
まちいきにあったみつねさんはんはながおかはんにこめひゃくひょうをおくったことでゆうめいThe Mineyama Domain, in this town's area, is famous for sending a hundred bales of rice to the Nagaoka Domain.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

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