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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: 目 小

県

Radical

Radical: 目

Reading: め

Meaning: eye

Strokes: 5

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Examples

Examples with audio

県(けん)   prefecture

県庁(けんちょう)   prefectural office

県民(けんみん)   citizens of a prefecture

県立(けんりつ)   prefecturally run

県道(けんどう)   prefectural road

県知事(けんちじ)   prefectural governor

広島県(ひろしまけん)   Hiroshima prefecture

Onyomi Examples

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

県営 (ケンエイ) (under) prefectural management

都道府県 (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

同県 (ドウケン) the same prefecture, the said prefecture

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