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Kanji Information Sheet for 険 (
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English: precipitous inaccessible place impregnable position steep place sharp eyes | On-Yomi: ケン | Kun-Yomi: けわ.しい |
Bushu (Radical) Info: 阜 (ぎふのふ) – left village
Henshall Mnemonic: elder brother dons cap to climb steep hill
Levels: JLPT N3 | JLPT 2 (old) | Grade 5
Frequency: #707 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Frequency: #707 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:
Click any individual kanji to view a similar information sheet for it.Click [K] to look up the word's individual character(s) at WWWJDIC.
Click [D] to look up the word at WWWJDIC (definition is the same but other useful features exist).
Click [Jisho] to look up the word at Jisho.org.
JLPT N4 Words
JLPT N3 Words
JLPT N2 Words
JLPT N1 Words
Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT
- 保険金 [ほけんきん]
(n) insurance payout [K] [D] [Jisho] - 生命保険 [せいめいほけん]
life insurance [K] [D] [Jisho] - 簡易保険 [かんいほけん]
postal life insurance [K] [D] [Jisho] - 国民健康保険 [こくみんけんこうほけん]
national health insurance [K] [D] [Jisho] - 険悪 [けんあく]
(adj-na,n) dangerous; serious; gloomy; perilous; threatening; stormy [K] [D] [Jisho] - 社会保険 [しゃかいほけん]
social insurance [K] [D] [Jisho] - 損害保険 [そんがいほけん]
damage insurance [K] [D] [Jisho] - 社会保険庁 [しゃかいほけんちょう]
Social Insurance Agency [K] [D] [Jisho] - 被保険者 [ひほけんしゃ]
(n) insured person [K] [D] [Jisho] - 健康保険 [けんこうほけん]
(n) health insurance [K] [D] [Jisho] - 探険 [たんけん]
(n) exploration; expedition [K] [D] [Jisho] - 火災保険 [かさいほけん]
fire insurance [K] [D] [Jisho]
Acknowledgments
The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.
The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.
Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.
The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.
If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.