Kanji1 / 9
冠 kanji
crown, best, peerless
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Secondary school
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カン
Kun readings
かんむり
Words with 冠
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —栄冠Popularlaurels; garland
- —王冠Popularcrown; diadem; bottle cap
- —弱冠Populartwenty years of age; youth; early age; tender age of ...
- —三冠馬Popularwinner of Japan's three main horse races
- —冠婚葬祭Popularimportant ceremonial occasions in family relationships
- —位冠ancient headgear showing rank
- —衣冠kimono and ancient head-dress
- —加冠crowning a boy with a traditional cap for the first time at a coming-of-age ceremony; person in charge of crowning the boy at a coming-of-age ceremony
- —花冠corolla; garland; wreath
- —冠位system indicating court ranks by headgear colors (colours)
- —冠詞article
- —冠辞stereotyped epithet
- —冠省Forgive me for dispensing with the preliminaries, but I hasten to inform you that ...
- —冠状coronary; coronal; coronate
- —冠水being covered with water (i.e. in a flood); being submerged; being inundated; flooding
- —冠毛thistledown
- —極冠polar cap
- —金冠gold crown (tooth); golden crown; coronet; crown made out of gold
- —桂冠crown of laurel
- —荊冠crown of thorns