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
- —剣石keystone
- —剣光light emanating from a sword; shimmering of a sword
- —名剣famous sword; excellent sword
- —魔剣magic sword; cursed sword
- —剣身sword blade
- —剣尖tip of a sword; point of a sword
- —孤剣sole sword; unarmed but for a sword
- —石剣sword-shaped stoneware found in archeological sites in eastern Japan dating to the end of the Jomon period
- —洋剣Western sword (esp. sabre)
- —霜剣cold sharp sword; blade of ice
- —利剣sharp sword
- —剣奴gladiator
- —剣匠swordsmith
- —剣鉈sturdy broad-bladed knife, used in woodcraft and hunting (tapered, unlike a regular nata)
- —秘剣secret swordsmanship (of a specific school); secret traditions of fencing
- —剣技sword skills; swordsmanship
- —豪剣great sword; grand sword
- —剣筋swordsmanship; line drawn by the tip of a sword when slashing
- —双剣(wielding) dual swords (esp. in fiction); twin swords; pair of Chinese straight swords wielded simultaneously (oft. sharing a single scabbard)
- —剣鬼Sword Devil (collection of short stories by Renzaburō Shibata and 1965 film)