365 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
467 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
444 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
104 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
4958 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
289 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
982 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
2245 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
3.7 | Japanese for Busy People |
398 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
402 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
446 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
1844 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
4129 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2099 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2842 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
2036 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
41297 | Morohashi |
3328 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
6402 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
2017 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
2173 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
84 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
614 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
70 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 関 【カン】 barrier, gate
- 関係 【カンケイ】 relation, relationship, connection, participation, involvement, concern, influence, effect, sexual relations, sexual relationship, related to, connected to
- 連関 【レンカン】 connection, relation, linkage
- 通関 【ツウカン】 customs clearance
Kun reading compounds
- 関 【せき】 barrier, gate, seki, mutual life
- 関取 【せきとり】 ranking wrestler in the makuuchi (senior-grade) or juryo (junior-grade) divisions
- 霞ヶ関 【かすみがせき】 Kasumigaseki, district of Tokyo where most of Japan's government ministry offices are located, government ministries (of Japan), Japanese government bureaucracy
- 関わる 【かかわる】 to be affected, to be influenced, to be concerned with, to have to do with, to stick to (opinions)
- 覗き機関 【のぞきからくり】 peep show, device with lens mounted on a stand or in a box to view enlarged pictures
- 水機関 【みずからくり】 puppet powered by (falling) water, water-powered contrivance, show using such a device (in Edo-period Osaka)
Readings
- Korean:
- gwan, wan
Spanish
- barrera
- puerta
- relación
- mecanismo
- valla
Portuguese
- conexão
- obstáculo
- passagem
- emvolver
- concernente
French
- relation
- barrière
- lien
- rapport
- concerner
3863 | 2001 Kanji |
8e6.7 | The Kanji Dictionary |
3-8-6 | SKIP code |
7743.0 | Four corner code |
1-20-56 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
95a2 | Unicode hex code |
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 鍵 【ケン】 key (on a piano, organ, etc.)
- 鍵盤 【ケンバン】 keyboard (of a piano, typewriter, etc.)
- 打鍵 【ダケン】 keystroke
- 黒鍵 【コッケン】 black key (on a piano, organ, etc.)
Kun reading compounds
- 鍵 【かぎ】 key, lock, key (to a problem, success, etc.), clue
- 鍵垢 【かぎアカ】 private account (on social media, esp. Twitter), account that can only be viewed by approved followers
- 公開鍵 【こうかいかぎ】 public key
- 暗号鍵 【あんごうかぎ】 cryptographic key, encryption key
Readings
- Korean:
- geon
Spanish
- llave
- tecla (piano
- órgano
- etc.)
Portuguese
French
1824 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
4894 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
2652 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
915 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
2203 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1565 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
40654 | Morohashi |
1753 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
6317 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
2761 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
418 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
8a8.18 | The Kanji Dictionary |
1-8-9 | SKIP code |
1-8-8 | SKIP code |
8514.0 | Four corner code |
1-24-16 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
9375 | Unicode hex code |