Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
Variants:
miscanthus reed
Kun:
かやかんぞう
On:
ケン
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2217 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 萱堂 【ケンドウ】 mother

Kun reading compounds

  • 茅 【かや】 grass used for thatching, sedge used for thatching
  • 萱鼠 【かやねずみ】 harvest mouse (Mus minutus)
  • 刈萱 【かるかや】 Themeda triandra var. japonica (variety of kangaroo grass), Cymbopogon tortilis var. goeringii (variety of grass closely related to lemongrass), thatching grass, thatching sedge
  • 雄刈萱 【おがるかや】 Cymbopogon tortilis var. goeringii (variety of grass closely related to lemongrass)
  • 萱草 【かんぞう】 daylily (any flower of the family Hemerocallis), day lily

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xuan1
Korean:
hweon

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3989 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1730 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2904 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2016 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
31345X Morohashi
5121 New Nelson (John Haig)
3k9.26 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-9 SKIP code
2-4-9 SKIP code
4410.6 Four corner code
1-19-94 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8431 Unicode hex code