懺 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning

regret, repent, confess sins

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ザン
  • サン
Kun (native)
  • くい(る)
Other languages
  • 拼音chan4
  • 한글cham
  • Hán-ViệtSám

Basics

Strokes
20 strokes
Radical
心(こころ)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+61FA

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰忄韱

Words using this kanji

  • 懺悔ざんげ(さんげ、ざんげ)神仏の前で過去に犯した罪過を告白し、許しを求めること。 (ざんげ)自らの行いにおける罪悪を自覚して、それを告白のうえ悔い改めること。repentance, confession, penitence
  • 懺法せんぼう経文を読み、罪過を懺悔する法要。また、その時読む経文や偈文。 上記の懺悔の方法について記した書物。penitence by chanting sutras, confession (of sins), penitence sutra, guidebook to penitence
  • 懺悔室ざんげしつ(a) confessional
  • 懺悔録ざんげろくConfessiones (St. Augustine of Hippo), Les Confessions (Rousseau)

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

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Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-3-17
Four Corner
9305.0
Spahn–Hadamitzky
4k17.1
Heisig
2228
Nelson
1791