漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
侃: strong, just
Also: righteous, peace-loving
JLPT N18 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 口 and 川 are drawn in
8 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
カンkan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 侃々諤々かんかんがくがくoutspoken
Also read つよい, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
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侃 strong · 亻 + 口
vs訓 instruction · 言In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · kǎn
Same form: 侃 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 侃 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 侃 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin kǎn 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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