竿
Stroke order
Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Meaning
pole, rod, scale beam, violin neck
English glosses from KANJIDIC2.
Readings
- On (Sino-Japanese)
- カン
- Kun (native)
- さお
- Other languages
- 拼音gan1
- 한글gan
- Hán-ViệtCan
- Hán-ViệtCán
Basics
- Strokes
- 9 strokes
- Radical
- 竹(たけ)
- JIS level
- Level 1
- Unicode
U+7AFF
Components
Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.
Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱𥫗干
Words using this kanji
- 竿さおrod, pole, neck (of a shamisen, etc.), shamisen
- 竿かんcounter for poles, rods, etc.
- 竿頭かんとう竿の先。top of a pole
- 竿秤さおばかりbeam balance, steelyard
- 竿燈かんとう8月3日~6日に秋田市などで行われる七夕祭りの行事。また、その際に使用されている竹竿に多数の提灯を付けた道具。Kanto Festival (Akita), street light
- 竿役さおやくcharacter in erotica with a mainly penetrative role
- 竿姉妹さおしまいwomen who have had sex with the same man
Words starting with this kanji, most common first.
Similar-looking kanji
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Lookup codes
- SKIP
2-6-3- Four Corner
8840.1- Spahn–Hadamitzky
6f3.3- Heisig
- 2676
- Nelson
- 3369