Kanji
N2 6 strokes Grade 3 freq #386

state, province

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

stream kawa

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

Europe
state (of the US, Australia, India, Germany, etc.); province (e.g. of Canada)
Kyūshū (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan)
state capital; provincial capital
state government
Guangzhou (China); Canton
Primorskaya Oblast (Russia)
Oceania
California (state)
white sandbar; white sandbank

Example sentences

Britain is separated from the Continent by the Channel.

With that as a start many European poems and much literature came to be introduced.

He was born in Ohio.

The governor set the prisoners free.