EntryCommonJLPT N1
  1. Noun

    cancer

    Usually written using kana alone

    クッキーのお母さんはガンで死んだ。
    Cookie's mother died of cancer.
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Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

cancer, cancerous evil

On
ガン
Strokes
17
Frequency
2233 of 2500
Radical
sickness

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Dictionary and index codes (13)
CodeReference
3-5-12SKIP code
5i12.4The Kanji Dictionary
0017.2Four corner code
764cUnicode hex code
1-20-66JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3076Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3840New Nelson (John Haig)
4076Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2576Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2626Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
22538Morohashi
yan2, ai2Pinyin reading
amKorean reading