癌 – cancer, cancerous evil

17 strokes#2233 in newspaper frequencyN3 vocabulary

The kanji 癌 means cancer, cancerous evil. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ガン (gan). It is written with 17 strokes, under radical 疒 (no. 104).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ガン	gan

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 疒 (Kangxi radical 104). Components: 口・山・疔・品.

Words using 癌

癌がんcancer

Kanji with the same radical

病療痛症疲痴癖痢痩痺

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