Kanji: 県

    • Meaning : prefecture
    • ON reading : ケン
    • KUN reading : か.ける
    • Nanori : あがた,がた
    • Stroke count : 9
    • Frequency of use ranking : 140
    • Jouyou grade level : 3
    • JLPT : 2
    • Radical :

Words containing that kanji:


  • - けんせい - prefectural government/prefectural administration
  • - えひめけん - Ehime prefecture (Shikoku)
  • - あいちけん - Aichi prefecture (Chuubu area)
  • - いばらきけん - Ibaraki prefecture (Kantou area)
  • - おかやまけん - Okayama prefecture (Chuugoku area)
  • - おきなわけん - Okinawa prefecture (including Okinawa island)
  • - かくけん - all prefectures
  • - いわてけん - Iwate prefecture (Touhoku area)
  • - ぎふけん - Gifu prefecture (Chuubu area)
  • - みやざきけん - Miyazaki prefecture (Kyuushuu)
  • - みやぎけん - Miyagi prefecture (Touhoku area)
  • - きんけん - neighboring prefectures/neighbouring prefectures
  • - くまもとけん - Kumamoto prefecture (Kyuushuu)
  • - ぐんけん - counties and prefectures
  • - ぐんまけん - Gunma prefecture (Kantou area)
  • - けんか - prefecture
  • - けんちじ - prefectural governor
  • - けんない - within the prefecture
  • - けんかい - prefectural assembly
  • - けんちょう - prefectural office
  • - けんみん - citizens of a prefecture
  • - けん - prefecture (of Japan) | county (of China)
  • - けんぎ - prefectural assembly
  • - けんちょうしょざいち - prefectural capital
  • - けんみんかいかん - prefectural meeting hall
  • - けんえい - prefectural/under prefectural management
  • - けんけい - prefectural police
  • - けんどう - prefectural road
  • - けんりつ - prefectural (institution)
  • - ひろしまけん - Hiroshima prefecture (Chuugoku area)
  • - あがたぬし - territorial ruler (Yamato-period)
  • - かがわけん - Kagawa prefecture (Shikoku)
  • - こうちけん - Kouchi (Kochi) prefecture (Shikoku)
  • - あがた - territory (pre-Taika: under the Yamato court; Heian: under a provincial governor, etc.) | countryside
  • - けんしゃ - prefectural shrine (of prefectures other than Kyoto and Osaka)
  • - さがけん - Saga prefecture (Kyuushuu)
  • - みえけん - Mie prefecture (Kinki area)
  • - さいたまけん - Saitama prefecture (Kantou area)
  • - やまなしけん - Yamanashi prefecture (Chuubu area)
  • - やまがたけん - Yamagata prefecture (Touhoku area)
  • - やまぐちけん - Yamaguchi prefecture (Chuugoku area)
  • - しがけん - Shiga prefecture (Kinki area)
  • 鹿 - かごしまけん - Kagoshima prefecture (Kyuushuu)
  • - あきたけん - Akita prefecture (Touhoku area)
  • - にいがたけん - Niigata prefecture (Hokuriku area)
  • - かながわけん - Kanagawa prefecture (Kantou area)
  • - あおもりけん - Aomori prefecture (Touhoku area)
  • - しずおかけん - Shizuoka prefecture (Chuubu area)
  • - いしかわけん - Ishikawa prefecture (Hokuriku area)
  • - ちばけん - Chiba prefecture (Kantou area)
  • - けんりついりょうだいがく - prefectural health sciences university
  • - けんびょういん - prefectural hospital
  • - けんりつだいがく - prefectural university
  • - けんりついかだいがく - prefectural medical school
  • - たけん - another prefecture
  • - けんりついだい - prefectural medical school
  • - けんけんしゅうじょ - prefectural training institute
  • - おおいたけん - Ooita (Oita) prefecture (Kyuushuu)
  • - ながのけん - Nagano prefecture (Chuubu area)
  • - ながさきけん - Nagasaki prefecture (Kyuushuu)
  • - とっとりけん - Tottori prefecture (Chuugoku area)
  • - しまねけん - Shimane prefecture (Chuugoku area)
  • - けんきゅうし - county-level city (of China)
  • - とどうふけん - administrative divisions of Japan: Tokyo-to, Hokkai-do, Osaka-fu, Kyoto-fu and remaining prefectures
  • - ふけんせい - prefectural system (as existed from 1890-1947)
  • - とくしまけん - Tokushima prefecture (Shikoku)
  • - どうけん - the same prefecture
  • - とちぎけん - Tochigi prefecture (Kantou area)
  • - ならけん - Nara prefecture (Kinki area)
  • - はいはんちけん - abolition of feudal domains and establishment of prefectures (1871)
  • - どうふけん - Hokkai-do, Osaka-fu, Kyoto-fu and remaining prefectures (all administrative divisions of Japan except Tokyo-to)
  • - ふくいけん - Fukui prefecture (Hokuriku area)
  • - ぶんけんちず - prefecture maps
  • - とやまけん - Toyama prefecture (Hokuriku area)
  • - ふくしまけん - Fukushima prefecture (Touhoku area)
  • - ひょうごけん - Hyogo prefecture (Kinki area) (Hyougo)
  • - ふけん - prefecture
  • - ふくおかけん - Fukuoka prefecture (Kyuushuu)
  • - わかやまけん - Wakayama prefecture (Kinki area)
  • - けんれん - prefectural party chapter
  • - けんと - prefectural capital
  • - けんがい - outside the prefecture
  • - けんせい - prefectural strengths (conditions, resources)
  • - ぐんけんせいど - county and prefecture system
  • - けんか - prefectural flower/floral emblem for a prefecture
  • - けんないしがいつうわ - intraprefectural call
  • - けんじんかい - association of people from the same prefecture
  • - けんぎかい - prefectural assembly
  • - けんみんぜい - tax on the residents of the prefecture
  • - けんれい - prefectural ordinance
  • - けんじん - native of a prefecture
  • - けんゆう - owned by the prefecture
  • - けんきょう | けんざかい - prefectural border/prefectural boundary
  • - けんぜい - prefectural tax
  • - けんりつびょういん - prefectural hospital
  • - たふけん - other prefectures
  • - ふけんべつじんこう - population classified by prefectures
  • - りんせつけん - neighboring prefecture/neighbouring prefecture