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Liver Imagine 肝 カン きも Pluck Nerve Chutzpah

Kanji
Onyomi カン
Kunyomi きも
English liver, pluck, nerve, chutzpah
Examples 肝心(かんじん): essential; fundamental; crucial; vital; main
JLPT Level 1
Jouyou Grade S
Frequency 1118
Components 肉: meat
干: dry; parch
Number of Strokes 7
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 130
Radical Strokes 6
Radical Reading にく・にくづき
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 形声 Phonetic
Keyword liver
Koohii Story 1 Well you all know that the liver is the part of the body that would be quite grateful if you led a dry lifestyle (i.e. no alcohol).
Koohii Story 2 The slaughterhouse prefers to ship dried liver to the supermarkets (can you imagine boxes soaked in blood on the truck that delivers them?). Imagine them lifting the slabs of flesh and hanging them on the clothesline to dry.

Tags: jlpt.n1, grades, kanjifreq1001-1500, kanji_body_organ.torso

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