漢 — Chinese, Han, fellow
かん
漢
Chinese
Grade 3
Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school.
13 strokes
U+6F22
Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard.
Freq #1487
Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common.
Heisig #1516
Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.
Meanings
- Chinese
- Han
- fellow
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).
Components
Composed of
Phono-semantic compound (形声). 氵 (water radical) provides the semantic domain. The right side originally depicted a man watching water flow from a cliff. Initially referred to the Han River (漢水) in central China, later extended to mean Chinese civilization and the Han people.