| 364 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 465 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 441 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 225 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 1295 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 318 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 462 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 672 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 326 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 326 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 540 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 469 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 2766 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1417 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1912 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1279 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 7107 | Morohashi |
| 2226 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1322 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1271 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1363 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 202 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 498 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
bureaucrat, the government, organ
- On:
- カン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
230 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 官 【カン】 government, government service, the bureaucracy, government post, government official
- 官界 【カンカイ】 bureaucracy
- 代官 【ダイカン】 local governor (Edo period), local magistrate, bailiff, deputy official (Middle Ages), acting administrator
- 自衛官 【ジエイカン】 Japanese Self-Defense Force official, Self-Defense Force official
Readings
- Korean:
- gwan
Spanish
- gobierno
- gubernamental (lugar
- persona)
- órgano del cuerpo
Portuguese
- burocracia
- o governo
French
- fonctionnaire
- gouvernemental
| 777 | 2001 Kanji |
| 3m5.6 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-3-5 | SKIP code |
| 3077.7 | Four corner code |
| 1-20-17 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 5b98 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
428 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 辺 【ヘン】 area, vicinity, region, side, edge, circumstances
- 辺境 【ヘンキョウ】 remote region, outlying district, border district, frontier
- 普遍 【フヘン】 universal, general, ubiquitous, omnipresent
- どの辺 【ドノヘン】 whereabouts, what part, how much, what point
Kun reading compounds
- 辺り 【あたり】 (in the) neighbourhood, neighborhood, vicinity, nearby, surroundings, around, about, or thereabouts, for instance, say, such as
- あたり一面 【あたりいちめん】 whole area, surrounding area, all around, everywhere, all over the place
- 御辺 【ごへん】 you
- 辺 【ほとり】 side (esp. of a waterbody), edge, bank, shore
- 片辺 【かたほとり】 corner, remote country place
Readings
- Japanese names:
- なべ
- Korean:
- byeon
Spanish
- alrededores
- límites
- vecindad
Portuguese
- arredores
- limite
- borda
- vizinhança
French
- environs
- frontière
- voisinage
| 713 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 608 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 580 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 696 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 4661 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 270 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 947 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 179 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 775 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 789 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 962 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 676 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3761 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1916 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2607 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 290 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 38710P | Morohashi |
| 3029 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 6011 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 284 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 302 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 455 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 3545 | 2001 Kanji |
| 2q2.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 3-3-2 | SKIP code |
| 3730.2 | Four corner code |
| 1-42-53 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 8fba | Unicode hex code |