Medoru
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憲
JLPT N1 SL6 16 strokes Frequency: #551

Meanings

Constitution, Law

Radicals

心

Decomposition

⿱宀⿱龶⿱罒心

Etymology

Ideographic: Rules 宀 for living 龶; 心 provides the pronunciation

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 16

Stroke Order

1 vertical right-to-left
2 dot right-to-left
3 corner bottom-right-to-top-left
4 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left
5 vertical right-to-left
6 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left
7 horizontal bottom-to-top
8 vertical bottom-to-top
9 corner bottom-right-to-top-left
10 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left
11 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left
12 horizontal bottom-to-top
13 dot bottom-to-top
14 hook bottom-to-top
15 dot bottom-right-to-top-left
16 dot top-left-to-bottom-right
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
ケン ken
Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

No common kun'yomi readings

Words Using This Kanji

85 words total
Other (20 words)
立憲民政党 りっけんみんせいとう

Constitutional Democratic Party (1927-1940)

ウェストミンスター憲章 ウェストミンスターけんしょう

Statute of Westminster (1931)

権利と自由のカナダ憲章 けんりとじゆうのカナダけんしょう

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

憲法規範 けんぽうきはん

constitutional norm

カナダ人権憲章 カナダじんけんけんしょう

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

新憲法 しんけんぽう

new constitution (esp. Japan's postwar constitution)

私擬憲法案 しぎけんぽうあん

private constitutional drafts prepared before the adoption of the Meiji Constitution in 1889

護憲派 ごけんは

advocates of protection of the Constitution

ワイマール憲法 ワイマールけんぽう

Weimar Constitution (Germany, 1919-1945)

協定憲法 きょうていけんぽう

agreed constitution (e.g. French Constitution of 1830)

協約憲法 きょうやくけんぽう

agreed constitution (e.g. French Constitution of 1830)

憲法学 けんぽうがく

(study of) constitutional law

立憲民主党 りっけんみんしゅとう

Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (2017-)

加憲 かけん

adding to the Constitution (e.g. an article)

典憲 てんけん

rule

人民憲章 じんみんけんしょう

People's Charter (UK)

改憲論者 かいけんろんしゃ

proponent of constitutional reform

憲法論議 けんぽうろんぎ

constitutional debate

憲法審査会 けんぽうしんさかい

Commission on the Constitution

立憲民主 りっけんみんしゅ

Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan

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