桿 — readings, stroke count and radical

  • Non-Jōyō kanji
  • 11 strokes

Stroke order

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

Meaning

shield, pole

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • カン
Kun (native)
  • てこ
Other languages
  • 拼音gan3
  • 한글han
  • Hán-ViệtCan
  • Hán-ViệtCán
  • Hán-ViệtCản
  • Hán-ViệtHãn

Basics

Strokes
11 strokes
Radical
木(き)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+687F

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰木旱

Words using this kanji

  • 桿菌かんきん円筒で棒のような形状の細菌の総称。bacillus
  • 桿状かんじょうrod-shaped, bacillary, bacilliform, baculiform
  • 桿体かんたいrod (cell)
  • 桿状体かんじょうたいrod (cell)
  • 桿状核球かんじょうかくきゅうband cell, stab cell
  • 桿体細胞かんたいさいぼうrod cell, rod

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(13 results)

Similar-looking kanji

Selected automatically by comparing composition (IDS). “Same composition” means the parts and their arrangement match.

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-4-7
Four Corner
4694.1
Spahn–Hadamitzky
4a7.7
Nelson
2280