Kanji1 / 9
冠 kanji
crown, best, peerless
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
カン
Kun readings
かんむり
Words with 冠
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —触手冠lophophore
- —初冠雪first snow to settle on a mountain
- —小冠者young man (who has recently undergone his manhood ceremony)
- —鶏冠石realgar
- —無冠詞zero article; having no article
- —冠飾句participial attribute (e.g. in German); participatory attribute
- —雪冠杉sekkan-sugi (Cryptomeria japonica)
- —亀頭冠corona glandis (penis); corona of glans penis
- —月桂冠Gekkeikan (sake manufacturer)
- —桂冠詩人poet laureate
- —三重宝冠(papal) triple tiara
- —不定冠詞indefinite article
- —冠状動脈coronary artery
- —冠状静脈coronary vein
- —偏旁冠脚radicals of a kanji (left, right, crown and lower); kanji components
- —衣冠束帯full Japanese court dress of traditional fashion
- —部分冠詞partitive article (e.g. "du" in French)
- —冠輪動物lophotrochozoan; any species in the superphylum Lophotrochozoa
- —猿面冠者young person with a monkey-like face (nickname for Toyotomi Hideyoshi)
- —合弁花冠gamopetalous corolla; sympetalous corolla