Entry
  1. Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb

    check; keeping in check; restraint; curbing; reining in; discouraging (from doing)

  2. containment (of enemy forces); diversionary action; feint operation; show of force

  3. pickoff throw; holding (a runner) on base

    Baseballsee 牽制球

Also written けん制【けんせい】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

pull, tug, drag, lead by hand

Kun
ひ.く
On
ケン
Strokes
11
Taught
Jinmeiyō
Radical
cow

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (15)
CodeReference
2-2-9SKIP code
2j9.3The Kanji Dictionary
0050.3Four corner code
727dUnicode hex code
1-24-03JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
320Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3544New Nelson (John Haig)
2621Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1816Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2550Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2607Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2028Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
20025Morohashi
qian1Pinyin reading
gyeonKorean reading
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

system, law, rule

On
セイ
Strokes
8
Taught
Grade 5
JLPT
N3
Frequency
108 of 2500
Radical
knife
WaniKani
Level 21

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (33)
CodeReference
1-6-2SKIP code
2f6.1The Kanji Dictionary
2220.0Four corner code
2443deroo
5236Unicode hex code
1-32-09JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
683Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
481New Nelson (John Haig)
1274New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1624Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
854Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1170Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
418Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
447Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
196A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
656Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
635Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1961Morohashi
722A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
427Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
433Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
823sakade
357Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
744henshall3
689Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
161crowley
687Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
193Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
425Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
zhi4Pinyin reading
jeKorean reading
n3JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
21WaniKani level