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貫 — pierce, 8 1/3lbs, penetrate

つらぬく貫 pierce

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 11 strokes

U+8CAB Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1156 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #106 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

pierce
8 1/3lbs
penetrate
brace

word

つらぬ tsuranu Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

貫(つらぬ) く tsuranuku to pierce

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).

一(いっ) 貫(かん) ikkan consistency

Appears in idioms

終始一貫四字熟語

end, commence, one, pierce

首尾一貫四字熟語

neck, tail, one, pierce

Stroke order

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

毋 mother

かい貝 shellfish #154

Used as component in (1)

なれる慣 accustomed

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.