冠
crown; best; peerless
9 strokes. Jōyō kanji, taught in secondary school. Newspaper frequency rank 1503.
Readings
- カン (on reading): 冠する (かんする) to crown; 金冠 (きんかん) gold crown (tooth)
- かんむり (kun reading): 冠 (かんむり) traditional cap worn by Shinto clergy and courtiers; 冠番組 (かんむりばんぐみ) namesake program
- Read as a whole word: 初冠 (ういこうぶり) crowning a boy for the first time at a coming-of-age ceremony
Components
Kanji containing 冠
- 蒄 type of plant
Words using 冠
- 冠する (かんする) to crown
- 金冠 (きんかん) gold crown (tooth)
- 戴冠 (たいかん) coronation
- 戴冠式 (たいかんしき) coronation ceremony
- 花冠 (かかん) corolla
- 冠 (かんむり) traditional cap worn by Shinto clergy and courtiers
- 冠番組 (かんむりばんぐみ) namesake program
- お冠 (おかんむり) bad temper
- 草冠 (くさかんむり) kanji "grass radical" (radical 140)
- 冠大会 (かんむりたいかい) sports competition sponsored by a business enterprise
- 初冠 (ういこうぶり) crowning a boy for the first time at a coming-of-age ceremony
- 鶏冠 (とさか) cockscomb
- 太郎冠者 (たろうかじゃ) Tarōkaja (common name for a manservant)
- 冠木門 (かぶきもん) gate with a crossbar
- 冠木 (かぶき) lintel
- 冠 (かぶり) order
136 words in all.