漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
懇: sociable, kind
Also: courteous, hospitable, cordial
JLPT N117 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
心 carries the meaning · 豸 and 艮 are drawn in
17 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
コンkon · on'yomi · in compounds
- 懇談こんだんfriendly chat; relaxed conversation
- 懇親こんしんfriendship; intimacy
- 懇話こんわfriendly talk; chat
- 懇意こんいfriendship; (on) familiar terms; intimacy
- 懇切こんせつkind and careful (instruction, explanation…
- 懇願こんがんpleading; entreaty; supplication
Also read ねんごろ, 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
“The ancient character once looked like a beating heart with its arteries. Today, 心 represents the very center of who we are—the place where our feelings bloom, our thoughts grow, and our spirit resides.”
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懇 sociable · 心
vs墾 ground-breaking · 土In ChineseSimplified 恳 · traditional, as in Japanese · kěn
Japan keeps the traditional form 懇; mainland China simplifies it to 恳.
- Simplified
- 恳 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 懇 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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