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顕 — appear, existing

けん顕 appear

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

U+9855 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1536 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1928 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

appear
existing

word

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

顕(けん) ken manifest 顕(けん) 著(ちょ) kencho remarkable

Appears in idioms

自己顕示四字熟語

self, self, appear, show

Stroke order

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Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

显 manifest (simplified)

頁 page

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.