The kanji 刊: meaning, readings and stroke order

刊

Meaning: publish
On reading: カン kan
Kun reading: —
Strokes: 5
Radical: 刀 knife, sword
Level: Level 5 · grade 5

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: xuất bản, in ra (san)
Japanese: ほんやざっしをだす。
Korean: 펴내다 (간)
Chinese: 出版、刊物

Readings, words and example sentences

カン kan · on reading

週しゅう刊かん
weekly (magazine)
週しゅう刊かんのざっしを買います。
I buy a weekly magazine.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.