岸 – beach

8 strokesTaught in grade 3#556 in newspaper frequencyN4 vocabulary

The kanji 岸 means beach. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ガン (gan); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is きし (kishi). It is written with 8 strokes, under radical 山 (no. 46).

Stroke order

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

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ガン	gan
Kun’yomi	きし	kishi

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: 山 (Kangxi radical 46). Components: 干・山・厂.

Words using 岸

海岸かいがんseashore岸きしbank沿岸えんがんcoast

Example sentences

このバスは、海岸に行きますか。

Does this bus go to the beach?

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彼らはその船を岸にあげた。

They drew the boat on the beach.

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トロール漁船は沿岸の魚をとりつくしました。

Fishing trawlers have fished out all the local waters.

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Kanji with the same radical

山島崩岩岳峡峰嵐峠崇岬崖

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