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犬 kanji
dog
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
ケン
Kun readings
いぬいぬ-
Words with 犬
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —ポメラニア犬Pomeranian (dog)
- —南総里見八犬伝Nansō Satomi Hakkenden (1814-42; novel in 106 volumes by Kyokutei Bakin); Eight Dog Chronicles; Tale of Eight Dogs; Biographies of Eight Dogs
- —日本盲導犬協会Japan Guide-dog Association
- —身体障害者補助犬assistance dog; helper dog
- —名犬ロンドン物語The Littlest Hobo (1958 film, 1963-1965 and 1979-1985 TV series)
- —身体障害者補助犬法Act on Assistance Dogs for Physically Disabled Persons
- —一犬虚に吠ゆれば万犬実を伝うone dog barks at a shadow, and a hundred bark at the sound; it takes one person to start a rumor for the masses to tell it as the truth; gossip travels faster than the truth; when one dog barks at nothing, ten thousand dogs will pass it on as fact
- —癒やし犬therapy dog
- —チンド犬Korean Jindo (dog breed)
- —南總里見八犬傳Nansō Satomi Hakkenden (1814-42; novel in 106 volumes by Kyokutei Bakin); Eight Dog Chronicles; Tale of Eight Dogs; Biographies of Eight Dogs