Kanji1 / 14
関 kanji
connection, barrier, gateway, involve, concerning
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
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カン
Kun readings
せき-ぜきかかわるからくりかんぬき
Variant forms
關Words with 関
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —関頭critical moment; crucial point; crossroads
- —郷関one's hometown
- —関鍵locking doors; lock and key; vital point
- —関説allusion; alluding; related explanation
- —関電electrode
- —関代relative pronoun
- —関副relative adverb
- —関手functor
- —関雎harmony and courtesy in a marriage
- —関大Kansai University (abbr)
- —関電Kansai Electric Power (abbr); KEPCO
- —関学Kwansei Gakuin University (abbr)
- —関節炎arthritis
- —関節技joint-locking technique (in judo)
- —関東弁Kantō dialect
- —関連性relatedness; associativity; relation; relationship; relevance
- —玄関先entrance; front door
- —玄関番doorkeeper; doorman; porter
- —股関節hip joint; coxa
- —差機関difference engine
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