Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

肯: agreement, consent

Also: comply with

JLPT N28 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

止 and 月 carry the meaning

8 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

コウkou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 肯定文こうていぶんaffirmative sentence
  • 肯定するこうていするaffirm, agree
  • 肯定こうてい

Also read がえんじる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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“The silver glow of the moon! Imagine the quiet beauty of a full moon rising over a dark horizon, marking the passage of time.”
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繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
止

Also built on stop (止)

All 10
月

Also built on meat (月)

All 63

Also read コウ

96 kanji share this on'yomiAll 96
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · kěn

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

Simplified
肯 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
肯 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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