漢 — Chinese, Han, fellow
かん
漢
Chinese
かん
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.
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Meanings
- Chinese
- Han
- fellow
Readings
- On'yomi
- かん kan
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).
Words by frequency and grade
8 wordsEach dot is a word containing 漢: 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 · 5 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.
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.