官 — bureaucrat, the government, organ

かん官 bureaucrat

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes people

U+5B98 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #230 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1363 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

bureaucrat
the government
organ

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).

官(かん) kan government official 長(ちょう) 官(かん) choukan chief 教(きょう) 官(かん) kyoukan instructor 次(じ) 官(かん) jikan vice-minister 参(さん) 事(じ) 官(かん) sanjikan councillor 高(こう) 官(かん) koukan high official 器(き) 官(かん) kikan organ 検(けん) 察(さつ) 官(かん) kensatsukan public prosecutor

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

宀 roof

くち口 mouth #30

Used as component in (3)

かん館 building かん管 pipe かん棺 coffin

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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.

#40 宀 roof