弦 — bowstring, chord, hypotenuse

げん弦 bowstring

げん

U+5F26 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1773 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1487 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

bowstring
chord
hypotenuse

Readings

On'yomi: げん gen
Kun'yomi: つる tsuru

word

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

弦(げん) gen bowstring 管(かん) 弦(げん) 楽(がく) kangengaku orchestral music 弦(げん) 楽(がく) gengaku music for strings 管(かん) 弦(げん) 楽(がく) 団(だん) kangengakudan orchestra

Words by frequency and grade

4 words

Each dot is a word containing 弦: 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 · 2 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

ゆみ弓 bow #57

げん玄 mysterious #95

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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.

#57 弓 bow