Kanji1 / 9
県 kanji
prefecture
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ケン
Kun readings
かける
Variant forms
縣Words with 県
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —県土prefectural land; prefectural territory
- —立県putting a prefecture on the map (e.g. as a tourist destination); promotion of a prefecture
- —県南southern part of a prefecture
- —道県prefectures (of Japan, excl. Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto); Hokkaido and other prefectures
- —都県prefectures (of Japan, excl. Kyoto, Osaka and Hokkaido); Tokyo and other prefectures
- —母県prefecture of birth; prefecture of origin
- —県名prefecture name
- —県史history of a prefecture
- —県北northern part of a prefecture
- —全県entire prefecture; every prefecture
- —県獣prefectural animal (chosen as a symbol of the prefecture)
- —愛知県Aichi prefecture (Chūbu area)
- —岡山県Okayama Prefecture (Chūgoku area)
- —沖縄県Okinawa Prefecture
- —岩手県Iwate Prefecture (Tōhoku area)
- —岐阜県Gifu Prefecture (Chūbu area)
- —宮崎県Miyazaki Prefecture (Kyūshū)
- —熊本県Kumamoto Prefecture (Kyūshū)
- —群馬県Gunma Prefecture (Kanto area)
- —広島県Hiroshima prefecture (Chūgoku area)