剣 — sabre, sword, blade

けん剣 sabre

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 10 strokes

U+5263 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1305 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1801 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

sabre
sword
blade
clock hand

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).

剣(けん) ken sword 真(しん) 剣(けん) shinken serious 剣(けん) 道(どう) kendou kendo

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

㑒 all

刂 knife (right form)

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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.

#18 刀 knife