Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 6

JLPT level: N3

156 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 15

Meaning: authority, power, rights

Kunyomi: おもり かり はか.る

Onyomi: ケン ゴン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: きへん

Meaning: tree

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

利(けんり)   right

限(けんげん)   power, jurisdiction

威(けんい)   authority

力(けんりょく)   power

(とっけん)   privilege

(じんけん)   human rights

(せいけん)   political power

参政(さんせいけん)   suffrage

所有(しょゆうけん)   right of ownership

者(ゆうけんしゃ)   electorate

分立(さんけんぶんりつ)   separation of powers

化(ごんげ)   incarnation

Onyomi Examples

ケン right (to do something), authority, power

ケンイ authority, power, influence

抵当 テイトウケン mortgage, right of pledge, lien

参政 サンセイケン suffrage, franchise

ゴンゲ incarnation (of Buddha or bodhisattva), avatar, embodiment (as in "embodiment of evil"), incarnation, personification

宮司 ゴングウジ associate chief priest, deputy chief priest

Kunyomi Examples

仮殿 かりどの temporary shrine (houses the object in which the deity resides when main shrine is under repairs)