EntryCommonJLPT N1
  1. Noun

    rod; pole

  2. neck (of a shamisen, etc.); shamisen

    esp. 棹

  3. beam (i.e. the crossbar of a balance)

  4. single line (esp. as a flying formation for geese)

  5. penis

    Slang

  6. Counter

    counter for flags (on poles); counter for long, thin Japanese sweets (e.g. yōkan)

Also written 棹【さお】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

1
竿
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

pole, rod, scale beam, violin neck

Kun
さお
On
カン
Strokes
9
Taught
Jinmeiyō
Frequency
2416 of 2500
Radical
bamboo

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Dictionary and index codes (14)
CodeReference
2-6-3SKIP code
6f3.3The Kanji Dictionary
8840.1Four corner code
7affUnicode hex code
1-20-40JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3369Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4250New Nelson (John Haig)
3259Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2288Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2632Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2676Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
25854Morohashi
gan1Pinyin reading
ganKorean reading