倹 — frugal, economy, thrifty

けん倹 frugal

けん

U+5039 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #2479 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1804 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

frugal
economy
thrifty

Readings

On'yomi: けん ken
Kun'yomi: つま tsuma つづまやか tsuzumayaka

word

けん ken On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

倹(けん) 約(やく) kenyaku frugality

Words by frequency and grade

1 word

Each dot is a word containing 倹: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 1 word has no frequency rank; it sits in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

亻 person (left form)

㑒 all

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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