EntryCommonJLPT N3WaniKani 9
  1. Noun, Noun, used as a suffix

    prefecture (of Japan); county (of China, Taiwan, Norway, etc.); department (of France); province (of Italy, Spain, etc.)

    チューリップは、私たちの県の県花です。
    Tulips are our prefecture's official flower.

Also written 縣【けん】

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Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

prefecture

Kun
か.ける
On
ケン
Strokes
9
Taught
Grade 3
JLPT
N2
Frequency
140 of 2500
Radical
eye
WaniKani
Level 9

Built from

Used in names as

あがたがた

Dictionary and index codes (32)
CodeReference
2-6-3, 2-5-4, 3-4-5SKIP code
3n6.3The Kanji Dictionary
2690.1Four corner code
1241deroo
770cUnicode hex code
1-24-09JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1362Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3918New Nelson (John Haig)
2641New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3269Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1687Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2294Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
513Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
552Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
195A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1252Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
381Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
23210PMorohashi
273A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
194Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
194Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
203sakade
226Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
291henshall3
326Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
336Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1380Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
126Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
xian4Pinyin reading
hyeonKorean reading
n2JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
9WaniKani level