漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons
刊: publish, carve
Also: engrave
JLPT N25 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
刂 carries the meaning · 干 gives the sound
5 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
カンkan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 朝刊ちょうかんmorning newspaper
- 夕刊ゆうかんevening paper
- 新刊書しんかんしょnew book, new publication
- 創刊号そうかんごうfirst edition, first printing
- 週刊誌しゅうかんしweekly publication
- 月刊誌げっかんしmonthly publication
- 季刊誌きかんしquarterly publication
- 刊行するかんこうするpublish, issue
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成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)干 (sound) + 刀 knife (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 刊 (rev. 92160346), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Shield (干) + knife (刂). Originally referred to using a "knife" to "carve" characters into a wooden board or shield for "publishing" official texts.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
刊 takes the 干 family's reading, カン (kan).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side刊 publish · 干
vs刑 punish · 开In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · kān
Same form: 刊 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 刊 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 刊 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin kān 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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