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Tags
- Jōyō kanji
- Kanji considered of common use by the Japanese Ministry of Education #joyo
- 8th grade kanji
- Kanji learned in eight grade (junior high school) #grade-8
- 10 strokes
- Kanji with 10 strokes #strokes-10
- JLPT N1 kanji
- JLPT N1 kanji: Advanced Level #jlpt1k
Reading
- On'yomi
- ケン
- Kun'yomi
- か.ねる-か.ねる
- Nanori
- かね
- Chinese (pinyin)
- jian1
- Korean (hangul)
- 겸
- Korean (romanized)
- gyeom
- Vietnamese
- Kiêm
- Kantenji (braille kanji)
- ⠧⢞
Meaning
- concurrently, and, beforehand, in advance
- simultanément, et, cumuler
- Concorrentemente, e
- concurrentemente, y, además, por añadidura, agarrar, coger, combinarse
Stroke order
Components in kanji 兼
Popular words containing this kanji
- to be unable to, to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do
- perusing as a side business, doing in addition to one's main work, running (businesses) simultaneously
- multi-use, combined use, combination, serving two purposes
- constraint, reserve, feeling hesitant, being afraid of troubling someone
Extended information
Frequency 1164
KANJIDIC Project
741 "Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary", by Andrew Nelson (now published as the "Classic" Nelson)
598 "The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary", by John Haig
381 "New Japanese-English Character Dictionary", by Jack Halpern
2286 "Kanji Learners Dictionary" (Kodansha) by Jack Halpern
1469 "Remembering The Kanji" by James Heisig
1597 "A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage" (Gakken)
1042 "Japanese Names", by P.G. O'Neill
1268 "Essential Kanji" by .GP. O'Neill
669 "Daikanwajiten" by Morohashi
1483:2:105 "A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters" by Kenneth G. Henshall
850 "Kanji and Kana" by Spahn and Hadamitzky
1081 "Kanji and Kana" by Spahn and Hadamitzky (2011 edition)
1129 "A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese" by Florence Sakade
769 Japanese Kanji Flashcards, by Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki (Series 1)
1078 Tuttle Kanji Cards, by Alexander Kask
1307 "Kanji in Context" by Nishiguchi and Kono
1324 "Japanese For Busy People" vols I-III, published by the AJLT. The codes are the
volume.chapter
0 The "Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide"
765 Codes from Yves Maniette's "Les Kanjis dans la tete" French adaptation of Heisig
1611 "Remembering The Kanji, 6th Ed." by James Heisig
1723 "Kodansha Kanji Dictionary", (2nd Ed. of the NJECD) by Jack Halpern
2850 "Kanji Learners Dictionary" (Kodansha), 2nd edition (2013) by Jack Halpern
1979
Halpern's SKIP (System of Kanji Indexing by Patterns) code
2-3-7 The descriptor codes for The Kanji Dictionary (Tuttle1996) by Spahn and Hadamitzky
2o8.1 The "Four Corner" code for the kanji. This is a code invented by Wang Chen in 1928
8023.7 The codes developed by the late Father Joseph De Roo, and published in his book "2001 Kanji" (Bonjinsha)
964
JIS X 0208-1997 - kuten coding
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1-23-83 Decimal representation of the UTF16 character
20860