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黔

黔 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. 黒い。浅黒い。
  2. 人民。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「黑」+音符「今」

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

black

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ケン
  • キン
Kun (native)
  • くろ(い)
Other languages
  • 拼音qian2
  • 한글geom
  • 한글geum
  • Hán-ViệtKiềm

Basics

Strokes
16 strokes
Radical
黑(くろ)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+9ED4

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰黑今

Words using this kanji

  • 黔首けんしゅthe people, the masses, the public, the great unwashed
  • 黔黎けんれいcommoners, peasantry, the masses

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(2 results)

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-12-4
Four Corner
6832.7
Spahn–Hadamitzky
4d12.10