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憲 kanji
constitution, law
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 16
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
ケン
Kun readings
NoneWords with 憲
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —違憲性unconstitutionality
- —憲兵隊regiment of military policemen
- —憲法上constitutional; constitutionally
- —旧憲法former constitution (i.e. in Japan, the Meiji Constitution)
- —新憲法new constitution (esp. Japan's postwar constitution)
- —護憲派advocates of protection of the Constitution; supporter of the current Constitution
- —憲法学(study of) constitutional law
- —州憲法state constitution (e.g. in the US)
- —憲政党Kenseitō; Constitutional Party; Japanese political party formed in June 1898 through the merger of the Liberal Party and the Progressive Party
- —憲法解釈constitutional interpretation
- —憲法改正constitutional reform; constitutional amendment
- —不文憲法uncodified constitution; unwritten constitution
- —国連憲章UN Charter; Charter of the United Nations
- —民定憲法democratic constitution
- —憲法違反violation of the constitution
- —護憲運動movement to defend the Constitution
- —立憲主義constitutionalism
- —立憲君主constitutional monarch
- —立憲政治constitutional government
- —欽定憲法constitution granted by the Emperor