The kanji 缶: meaning, readings and stroke order
缶
- Meaning
- can, tin
- On reading
- カン kan
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 缶 jar
- Level
- Level 9 · senior high school
- Old form
- 罐
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- lon, hộp thiếc (quán)
- Japanese
- かん。きんぞくで できた いれもの。
- Korean
- 깡통, 캔 (부)
- Chinese
- 罐、易拉罐
Readings, words and example sentences
カン kan · on reading
空缶
empty can
空缶を 分けて すてます。
I sort the empty cans before throwing them away.
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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.