刊 — publish, carve, engrave

かん刊 publish

Grade 5 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 5 strokes

U+520A Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #855 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1779 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

publish
carve
engrave

word

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

刊(かん) kan publication 週(しゅう) 刊(かん) shuukan weekly (publication) 刊(かん) 行(こう) kankou publication 朝(ちょう) 刊(かん) choukan morning edition 新(しん) 刊(かん) shinkan new publication 月(げっ) 刊(かん) gekkan monthly publication 日(にっ) 刊(かん) nikkan daily publication 夕(ゆう) 刊(かん) yuukan evening newspaper

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

ほす干 dry #51

刂 knife (right form)

Open in Atlas

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.

#18 刀 knife