Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home

完: perfect, completion

Also: end

JLPT N37 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met

宀 carries the meaning · 元 gives the sound

7 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

カンkan · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 完成するかんせいするcomplete, finish
  • 完了するかんりょうするcomplete
  • 完結するかんけつするconclude, finish
  • 完備するかんびするequip fully
  • 完全なかんぜんなperfect
  • 完璧なかんぺきなflawless

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)宀 roof (meaning) + 元 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 完 (rev. 94519400), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Under one roof! Imagine the safety and warmth of a sturdy house at the end of a long day.”
More in the 宀 roof story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
宀

Also built on roof (宀)

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元

Also built on beginning (元)

完 takes the 元 family's reading, カン (kan).

完 gives its sound to

Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read カン

51 kanji share this on'yomiAll 51

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
完 perfect · 宀
vs冠 crown · 冖 + 寸
完 has 宀 where 冠 has 冖 + 寸.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · wán

Same form: 完 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
完 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
完 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin wán 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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