Entry
  1. Noun

    carpenter's square

    see 矩尺

  2. upside-down and mirrored L-shape (used in traditional shop logos combined with another character)

    ┐; oft. written out as カネ

  3. perpendicularity; straightness

    Archaic

  4. model; standard

    Archaic

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

ruler, carpenter's square

Kun
かねかねざしさしがね
On
Strokes
10
Taught
Jinmeiyō
JLPT
N1
Frequency
2380 of 2500
Radical
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Built from

Used in names as

のりつねただし

Dictionary and index codes (19)
CodeReference
1-5-5, 1-5-4SKIP code
2t7.1The Kanji Dictionary
8141.7Four corner code
77e9Unicode hex code
1-22-75JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3171Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3980New Nelson (John Haig)
1148New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1475Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
783Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1062Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2585Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2631Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1108Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
23947XMorohashi
2175Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
ju3Pinyin reading
guKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)