件 – affair, case, matter

6 strokesTaught in grade 5#212 in newspaper frequencyN3 vocabulary

The kanji 件 means affair, case, matter, item. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ケン (ken); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is くだん (kudan). It is written with 6 strokes, under radical 人 (no. 9).

Stroke order

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

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ケン	ken
Kun’yomi	くだん	kudan

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: 人 (Kangxi radical 9). Components: 化・牛.

Words using 件

件けんmatter事件じけんevent条件じょうけんcondition用件ようけんbusiness

Example sentences

私はこの件に関しては、あなたに賛成です。

I agree with you on this issue.

Tatoeba #160928

死亡事例が19件と全体の20％を超えており、過労死の深刻な実態が浮き彫りになった。

With 19 cases of death forming over 20% of the whole, the grave reality of overwork-deaths has been thrown into relief.

Tatoeba #74381

この事件に手を貸してください。

Give me a hand with this case.

Tatoeba #221665

Kanji with the same radical

会人今代体作以保信側任使係価住位

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.