Kanji1 / 10
剣 kanji
sabre, sword, blade, clock hand
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ケン
Kun readings
つるぎ
Variant forms
剱劍劒劔釼Words with 剣
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —剣幕threatening attitude; menacing look; angry look
- —銃剣bayonet; guns and swords
- —短剣short sword; dagger; stiletto; hour hand (of a clock)
- —木剣bokken; wooden sword
- —佩剣wearing a sword
- —帯剣wearing a sword; being armed with a sword; sword
- —懐剣dagger
- —抜剣drawing one's sword
- —着剣fixing a bayonet
- —宝剣treasured sword
- —霊剣sword possessing mystical powers; virtuous sword
- —神剣divine sword (one of the three sacred treasures)
- —長剣long sword; minute hand (of a clock)
- —撃剣fencing; kendo
- —剣竜stegosaur (any dinosaur of infraorder Stegosauria)
- —聖剣holy sword; sacred sword
- —銅剣bronze sword
- —鉄剣iron sword
- —大剣large sword; long sword
- —剣聖master swordsman