漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
権: authority, power
Also: rights
JLPT N315 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
- 木tree(meaning)
- 雚(sound)
木 carries the meaning · 雚 gives the sound
15 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
ケンken · on'yomi · in compounds
- 権利けんりright
- 権限けんげんpower, jurisdiction
- 権威けんいauthority
- 権力けんりょくpower
- 特権とっけんprivilege
- 人権じんけんhuman rights
- 政権せいけんpolitical power
- 参政権さんせいけんsuffrage
- 所有権しょゆうけんright of ownership
- 有権者ゆうけんしゃelectorate
- 三権分立さんけんぶんりつseparation of powers
ゴンgon · on'yomi
- 権化ごんげincarnation
Also read おもり, かり, はかる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)木 tree (meaning) + 雚 (sound)
A type of tree named 黃華 (Shuowen); phonetically borrowed for "standard weight".
Source: Wiktionary, 權 (rev. 92200860), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Stand before a great, ancient tree and see 木! The vertical line is the sturdy trunk, the top strokes are branches reaching for the sunlight, and the bottom strokes are the roots gripping the earth.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read ゴン
7 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by side権 authority · 雚
vs雑 miscellaneous · 九 + 隹In ChineseSimplified 权 · traditional 權 · quán
Three different forms: Japanese 権, simplified 权, traditional 權.
- Simplified
- 权 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 權 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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