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憲

Constitution
Stroke count: 16

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On readingケン
  1. charter

Popular Usage

憲法

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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mansion · house · grow up · eye (目) · cross-eyed · net (网) · heart (心)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1674

Compound words

大統領は憲法を停止し、戒厳令をしきました。
The President suspended the constitution and imposed martial law.tatoeba
首相は憲章に署名した。
The Premier subscribed his name to the charter.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

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.

オランダの憲法上の首都はアムステルダムである
おらんだのけんぽうじょうのしゅとはあむすてるだむであるThe constitutional capital of the Netherlands is Amsterdam.
ボリビアの憲法上の首都はスクレであり最高裁判所はそこにある
ぼりびあのけんぽうじょうのしゅとはすくれでありさいこうさいばんしょはそこにあるThe constitutional capital of Bolivia is Sucre, and the Supreme Court is there.
ベナンの憲法上の首都はポルトノボである
べなんのけんぽうじょうのしゅとはぽるとのぼであるThe constitutional capital of Benin is Porto-Novo.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

16 strokes

Constitution. 宀 + 罒 (eyes) + 心 (heart) — law watched over with eyes and heart. 憲法 — constitution.

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