簡 — simplicity, brevity

かん簡 simplicity

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 18 strokes

U+7C21 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #983 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1749 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

simplicity
brevity

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).

簡(かん) 単(たん) kantan simple 簡(かん) 易(い) kani simple 簡(かん) 潔(けつ) kanketsu concise 簡(かん) 素(そ) kanso simplicity 書(しょ) 簡(かん) shokan letter

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

たけ竹 bamboo #118

あいだ間 interval

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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.

#118 竹 bamboo