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Kyōiku kanji
Kanji that Japanese students should learn in elementary school #kyoiku
Jōyō kanji
Kanji considered of common use by the Japanese Ministry of Education #joyo
1st grade kanji
Kanji learned in first grade (elementary school) #grade-1
6 strokes
Kanji with 6 strokes #strokes-6
JLPT N5 kanji
JLPT N5 kanji: Basic Level #jlpt5k

Reading

  • On'yomi
    セン
  • Kun'yomi
    さきま.ず
  • Nanori
    ぽん
  • Chinese (pinyin)
    xian1
  • Korean (hangul)
  • Korean (romanized)
    seon
  • Vietnamese
    TiênTiến
  • Kantenji (braille kanji)
    ⡳⣈

Meaning

Stroke order

Not available for this kanji.

先 stroke 1先 stroke 2先 stroke 3先 stroke 4先 stroke 5先 stroke 6先 stroke 7
Number of strokes: 6

Components in kanji 先

Similar kanji

Antonyms

Homonyms

Popular words containing this kanji

先月 せんげつ
popularJLPT N5noun (generic)adverb
  • last month
先生 せんせい
popularJLPT N5noun (generic)
  • teacher, instructor, master
優先 ゆうせん
popularJLPT N1noun (generic)adjective (generic)
  • preference, priority, precedence
先頭 せんとう
popularJLPT N2noun (generic)
  • head (of a line, group, etc.), front, lead, forefront, vanguard
先に さきに
popularJLPT N1adverb
  • previously, before, earlier, formerly, recently
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Extended information

  • Frequency173
  • KANJIDIC Project

    1576

    "Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary", by Andrew Nelson (now published as the "Classic" Nelson)

    571

    "The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary", by John Haig

    350

    "New Japanese-English Character Dictionary", by Jack Halpern

    2394

    "Kanji Learners Dictionary" (Kodansha) by Jack Halpern

    1552

    "Remembering The Kanji" by James Heisig

    248

    "A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage" (Gakken)

    201

    "Japanese Names", by P.G. O'Neill

    280

    "Essential Kanji" by .GP. O'Neill

    65

    "Daikanwajiten" by Morohashi

    1349:1:1003

    "A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters" by Kenneth G. Henshall

    49

    "Kanji and Kana" by Spahn and Hadamitzky

    50

    "Kanji and Kana" by Spahn and Hadamitzky (2011 edition)

    50

    "A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese" by Florence Sakade

    33

    Japanese Kanji Flashcards, by Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki (Series 1)

    16

    "A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese" 3rd edition, by Henshall, Seeley and De Groot

    43

    Tuttle Kanji Cards, by Alexander Kask

    54

    "The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power" by Dale Crowley

    115

    "Kanji in Context" by Nishiguchi and Kono

    48

    "Japanese For Busy People" vols I-III, published by the AJLT. The codes are the volume.chapter

    2.18

    The "Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide"

    145

    Codes from Yves Maniette's "Les Kanjis dans la tete" French adaptation of Heisig

    254

    "Remembering The Kanji, 6th Ed." by James Heisig

    263

    "Kodansha Kanji Dictionary", (2nd Ed. of the NJECD) by Jack Halpern

    3046

    "Kanji Learners Dictionary" (Kodansha), 2nd edition (2013) by Jack Halpern

    2123
  • Halpern's SKIP (System of Kanji Indexing by Patterns) code

    2-4-2

    The descriptor codes for The Kanji Dictionary (Tuttle1996) by Spahn and Hadamitzky

    3b3.7

    The "Four Corner" code for the kanji. This is a code invented by Wang Chen in 1928

    2421.1

    The codes developed by the late Father Joseph De Roo, and published in his book "2001 Kanji" (Bonjinsha)

    2457
  • JIS X 0208-1997 - kuten coding nn-nn

    1-32-72

    Decimal representation of the UTF16 character

    20808