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
- —県外人person from outside the prefecture; people from other prefectures
- —府県税prefectural tax
- —都府県prefectures (of Japan, excl. Hokkaido)
- —都道県prefectures (of Japan, excl. Osaka and Kyoto)
- —近隣県neighbouring prefecture
- —県外者person from outside the prefecture; people from other prefectures
- —県民会館prefectural meeting hall; civic center; community hall
- —鹿児島県Kagoshima Prefecture (Kyūshū)
- —廃藩置県abolition of the han system and establishment of prefectures (1871)
- —分県地図prefecture-by-prefecture map; atlas of Japan divided by prefecture; map of a single prefecture
- —和歌山県Wakayama Prefecture (Kinki area)
- —郡県制度county and prefecture system
- —県立病院prefectural hospital
- —県立医大prefectural medical school
- —県立大学prefectural university
- —県研修所prefectural training institute
- —観光立県making a prefecture a travel destination; tourism-promoting prefecture
- —県立高校prefectural high school; public high school
- —第二県紙minor local newspaper
- —県会議員prefectural assembly member