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Sane Radical 康 コウ かん こ みち やす

Kanji
Onyomi コウ
Nanori かん, こ, みち, やす, やすし
English ease, peace
Examples 健康(けんこう): health; sound; wholesome
JLPT Level 2
Jouyou Grade 4
Frequency 760
Components 广: dotted cliff radical (no. 53)
隶: extend; give; cast; slave radical (no. 171)
Number of Strokes 11
Kanji Radical 广
Radical Number 53
Radical Strokes 3
Radical Reading まだれ
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 会意 Compound Ideographic
Keyword sane
Koohii Story 1 A psychiatric hospital is located in a CAVE. To determine, which patients are sane and can be released, they are given a SIEVE and asked to empty a bathtub (the sane ones take out the plug and get the water out with ease).
Koohii Story 2 People on the cave age became more sane after they started using sieves to avoid eating harmful things with their grains. (This kanji is almost exclusively used to write 健康, health).

Tags: jlpt.n2, grade4, kanjifreq751-1000, kanji_body_health.illness

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