漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
敢: daring, brave
Also: bold, sad, tragic, pitiful
JLPT N112 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
攵 carries the meaning · 耳 is drawn in
12 strokes
Bronze · Western Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
カンkan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 勇敢なゆうかんなbrave
- 果敢なかかんなbold, resolute
- 敢然とかんぜんとboldly
- 果敢かかん
- 敢闘かんとうfighting bravely
- 敢行かんこうdecisive action; going through with
Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.
- 敢えてあえてdare to, run a risk of [adv.]
- 取り敢えずとりあえずfor the time being
Also read あえて, あえない, あえず, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Whack! A hand with a stick is ready to take command.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · gǎn
Same form: 敢 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 敢 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 敢 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin gǎn 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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