Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

拳: fist

JLPT N110 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

手 carries the meaning · 二 and 人 are drawn in

10 strokes
  • Bronze · Spring and Autumn
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Three readings, and the words that use each

ケンken · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 拳銃けんじゅうpistol; handgun
  • 拳法けんぽうChinese martial arts; kung fu; wushu

ゲンgen · on'yomi

  • 拳骨げんこつ(clenched) fist; knuckles

こぶしkobushi · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 拳こぶしfist

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Lend a hand! This radical is the ultimate symbol of human action and creativity.”
More in the 手 hand story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
二

Also built on two (二)

All 15
人

Also built on person (人)

All 21
手

Also built on hand (手)

All 6

Also read ケン

39 kanji share this on'yomiAll 39

Also read ゲン

17 kanji share this on'yomiAll 17
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · quán

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

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

Pinyin quán 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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