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Kanji Detail for 冠 - "crown"

冠

  • Meaning

    冠 means "crown." Also associated with to wear, adulthood.

    1. Crown - Something worn on the head.

    2. To wear - To put on a crown.

    3. Adulthood - Coming of age; from the ancient ceremony of wearing a crown at age twenty.

    4. Supreme - The best; the highest.

    5. Radical - A kanji component; the top part of characters.

  • Words using 冠

    • 栄冠 えいかん Listen laurels; garland
    • 冠婚葬祭 かんこんそうさい Listen important ceremonial occasions in family relationships
    • 三冠馬 さんかんば Listen winner of Japan's three main horse races

  • Four-character idioms with 冠

    • 冠婚葬祭 かんこんそうさい Listen important ceremonial occasions in family relationships
    • 偏旁冠脚 へんぼうかんきゃく Listen radicals of a kanji (left, right, crown and lower); kanji components
    • 冠履転倒 かんりてんとう Listen disorder; chaos; inversion
    • 桂冠詩人 けいかんしじん Listen poet laureate
    • 衣冠束帯 いかんそくたい Listen full Japanese court dress of traditional fashion

  • Tattoo check: 冠

    • Verified meaning: crown
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read かもり, かん, かんむり, まさる)
    • Also carries these associations: to wear, adulthood

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 冠

    Given names 冠(かん)Listen 冠(かんむり)Listen 冠(まさる)Listen

    Surnames 冠(かもり)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    crown; best; peerless

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    cap, crown, headgear

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Guan

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    cap, crown, headgear

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    What is placed on the head. Now called 帽 (hat). | Placing a cap on the head is called 冠. In ancient times, men at twenty first performed the capping ceremony. Hence twenty is called 弱冠 (youthful capping). Children who haven't come of age are also called 未冠. | Being the leader is called 冠. Such as 獨出冠時, meaning being the best of the time.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    kan(カン) カン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    kanmuri(かんむり) かんむり

  • Strokes

    tip

    9 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    冖 (wakammuri・hirakammuri・bekikammuri)

  • Related Keywords

    crown to wear adulthood supreme cap diadem ceremony champion coronation elevated first place head honor pinnacle prestige royalty

Sentences including 冠

  • There's a crown here.

  • He was crowned with eternal victory.

  • No pain, no gain.

  • It wasn't a 100 yen coin, it was a bottle cap.

  • Mayuko wore a flower crown.

  • Hundreds of fields were submerged in the flood.

  • The Russian language has no articles.

  • The crown was set with gems.

  • She is a bit indignant about being kept waiting.

  • Our streets flood when we have rain.

More kanji with the radical 冖 (wakammuri・hirakammuri・bekikammuri)

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