Kanji1 / 9
巻 kanji
scroll, volume, book, part, roll up, wind up, tie, coil, counter for texts (or book scrolls)
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
カンケン
Kun readings
まくまきまき
Variant forms
卷Words with 巻
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —前巻previous volume
- —合巻type of picture book popular in the late Edo period
- —欠巻missing volume (e.g. of a set of books)
- —次巻next volume (of a book, comic, etc.)
- —巻数volume number; reel number; scroll number; number of volumes; number of reels; number of scrolls; number of turns (of a coil); number of windings (of a transformer, electromagnet, etc.); a set number of scrolls to be read by a Buddhist monk
- —書巻book (usu. old); publication; document
- —巻帙books; volumes; protective covering for a book
- —図巻picture scroll
- —続巻next volume (of a book)
- —巻子本roll; scroll; rolled book
- —巻頭言foreword; preface; prefatory note
- —巻頭歌prefatory song or poem; opening song
- —第一巻volume 1; first volume
- —上下巻first and second volume (e.g. of a book); volume one and volume two; book one and book two
- —開巻劈頭very beginning of a book
- —巻を追うto read volume by volume; to go on reading
- —一巻の終わりthe end of the line; the end of the road; curtains
- —一巻の終りthe end of the line; the end of the road; curtains