漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
墾: ground-breaking, open up farmland
JLPT N116 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
土 carries the meaning · 豸 and 艮 are drawn in
16 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
コンkon · on'yomi · in compounds
- 開墾かいこんcultivating new land; clearing; reclamation
- 未墾みこんuncultivated; wild
- 墾田こんでんnew rice field
Also read はる, ひらく, 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
“Imagine a cross planted firmly in the ground—that's 土! It shows a stake or a seedling marking the earth, reminding us of farming, construction, and the solid foundation upon which we build our lives and cities.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
豸
Also built on 豸
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side墾 ground-breaking · 土
vs懇 sociable · 心In ChineseSimplified 垦 · traditional, as in Japanese · kěn
Japan keeps the traditional form 墾; mainland China simplifies it to 垦.
- Simplified
- 垦 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 墾 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin kěn 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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