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Sino-
Stroke count: 13

Readings

On readingカン

Meanings

  1. sino-RtK
    外来片仮名話し言葉Sino-Japanese words, borrowed words and katakana words, and spoken wordswiki
  2. china
  1. japanese word of Chinese origin
  2. sino-Japanese word
  3. language of the Han people
  4. chinese

Popular Usage

漢字漢和漢語

Radicals and components

Components
How it's built

Mnemonic (RtK)

sino · water () · water droplets () · water pistol () · scarecrow · flowers () · mouth () · husband

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1701

Compound words

彼はその詩を肉太に書いた。かんし
He wrote the Chinese poem in bold strokes.tatoeba
君は詩を読んだことがありますか。かんし
Have you ever read any Chinese poems?tatoeba
脚韻と平仄が詩の基本的ルールとなっています。かんし
Rhyme and meter form the essential rules of Chinese poetry.tatoeba
彼は大食だ。
He is a big eater.tatoeba
彼は字が全く書けない。
He can't write any kanji.tatoeba
彼はその詩を肉太に書いた。
He wrote the Chinese poem in bold strokes.tatoeba
地下鉄の痴には堪えられない。
I can't stand dirty old men in the subway.tatoeba
桑原翠邦…字書
Suiho KUWAHARA: calligraphy of Chinese characterswiki
字は常用字に改めた。
* The kanji (Chinese characters) were altered to the commonly used characters.wiki
当時から語の和訓を知るために重宝された。
Since having been compiled, this document was used frequently for knowing Japanese pronunciations for Chinese wordswiki

Stroke Order

13 strokes

Practice Writing

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