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
- —剣を落として舟を刻むto not be getting with the times; to be unaware that things are changing; to drop one's sword (in the river) and carve (a mark) on the boat (to mark the spot where the sword was dropped)
- —銃砲刀剣類所持等取締法Act for Controlling the Possession of Firearms or Swords and Other Such Weapons
- —剣玉kendama; Japanese bilboquet (cup-and-ball game)
- —剣突rough scolding; upbraiding; tongue-lashing; dressing-down
- —剣峻steep; precipitous
- —剣龍stegosaur (any dinosaur of infraorder Stegosauria)
- —剛剣great sword; grand sword
- —剣が峰rim of a volcano (esp. Mt. Fuji); wrestling ring; dire or risky situation with no room for error; sink-or-swim position
- —剣突を食わすto burst out in anger
- —剣突を食わせるto angrily reject; to snub; to give a person a good scolding; to give a person a rap on the knuckles
- —口に蜜有り腹に剣有りhoney in one's mouth but a razor in one's belt