漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
件: affair, case
Also: matter, item
JLPT N36 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 牛 is drawn in
6 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
ケンken · on'yomi · in compounds
- 件けんincident
- 事件じけんincident, criminal case
- 条件じょうけんcondition [n.]
- 用件ようけん(one's) business, concerns
- 人件費じんけんひcost of labor
- 件数けんすうnumber of cases, incidents, items…
- 本件ほんけんthis matter; this case
- 物件ぶっけんarticle; thing; object
Also read くだん, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)人 man + 牛 cow
Source: Wiktionary, 件 (rev. 93779592), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side件 affair · 亻
vs告 revelation · 口In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jiàn
Same form: 件 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 件 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 件 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jiàn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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