Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3

JLPT level: N2

140 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 9

Meaning: prefecture

Kunyomi: か.ける

Onyomi: ケン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading:

Meaning: eye

Strokes: 5

Examples

Examples with audio

(けん)   prefecture

庁(けんちょう)   prefectural office

民(けんみん)   citizens of a prefecture

立(けんりつ)   prefecturally run

道(けんどう)   prefectural road

知事(けんちじ)   prefectural governor

広島(ひろしまけん)   Hiroshima prefecture

Onyomi Examples

ケン prefecture (Japan), county (China, Taiwan, Norway, etc.), department (France), province (Italy, Spain, etc.)

ケンエイ (under) prefectural management

都道府 トドウフケン prefectures (of Japan), largest administrative divisions of Japan: Tokyo-to, Osaka-fu, Kyoto-fu, Hokkaido and the remaining prefectures

ドウケン the same prefecture, the said prefecture