専 — specialty, exclusive, mainly

せん専 specialty

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 9 strokes

U+5C02 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #506 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #47 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

specialty
exclusive
mainly
solely

word

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

専(せん) 門(もん) senmon specialty 専(せん) 用(よう) senyou exclusive use 専(せん) 業(ぎょう) sengyou sole occupation 専(せん) 念(ねん) sennen devotion 専(せん) 務(む) senmu managing director 専(せん) 任(にん) sennin full-time 専(せん) 門(もん) 医(い) senmoni specialist doctor 専(せん) 属(ぞく) senzoku exclusive

Appears in idioms

独断専行四字熟語

single, severance, specialty, go

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

もちいる用 use #101

甫 begin

すん寸 inch #41

よし由 reason

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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.

#41 寸 inch