墾
break ground; ground-breaking; open up farmland
16 strokes. Jōyō kanji, taught in secondary school.
Readings
- コン (on reading): 開墾 (かいこん) cultivating new land; 墾田 (こんでん) new rice field
- はる (kun reading)
- ひらく (kun reading): 墾く (ひらく) to cultivate (land)
Components
- 豸
- 艮
- 土
- 土 radical earth
- ⺨ radical dog, left-side form of 犬
- 爪 radical claw
- 艮 radical stopping; stubborn
- 豸 radical badger; clawed beast
Words using 墾
- 開墾 (かいこん) cultivating new land
- 墾田 (こんでん) new rice field
- 未墾 (みこん) uncultivated
- 開墾地 (かいこんち) cultivated land
- 未開墾 (みかいこん) uncultivated
- 墾く (ひらく) to cultivate (land)
8 words in all.