漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons
艦: warship
JLPT N121 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
舟 carries the meaning · 監 gives the sound
21 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
カンkan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 艦かんwarship
- 艦隊かんたい(naval) fleet; armada
- 艦船かんせんwarships and other vessels
- 艦艇かんていnaval vessels; warships
- 軍艦ぐんかんwarship; battleship
- 戦艦せんかんbattleship
- 潜水艦せんすいかんsubmarine
- 駆逐艦くちくかんdestroyer (ship)
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Sail away! This radical represents the spirit of exploration and transport.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
監
Also built on oversee (監)
艦 takes the 監 family's reading, カン (kan).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side艦 warship · 舟
vs鑑 specimen · 金In ChineseSimplified 舰 · traditional, as in Japanese · jiàn
Japan keeps the traditional form 艦; mainland China simplifies it to 舰.
- Simplified
- 舰 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 艦 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jiàn 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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