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Wood Coffin 棺 カン Casket S 木 Tree

Kanji
Onyomi カン
English coffin, casket
JLPT Level 1
Jouyou Grade S
Frequency 2161
Components 木: tree; wood
官: bureaucrat; the government
Number of Strokes 12
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 75
Radical Strokes 4
Radical Reading き・きへん
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 形声 Phonetic
Keyword coffin
Koohii Story 1 The maestro at home was sick of being a bureaucrat, so he got some wood and built himself a coffin and got in.
Koohii Story 2 An excellent use of wood is to make coffins for bureaucrats.
RTK Index 1272

Tags: jlpt.n1, grades, kanjifreq2001-2500, kanji_manufactured.item

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