I Love Kanji件 (ken)
件 (けん, ken) is a Japanese noun meaning “matter; affair”. It appears in JLPT N3 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- けん
- Romaji
- ken
- Word class
- Noun
- Level
- JLPT N3 (unofficial)
Meaning
- matter; affair; case; item; subject · noun, counter
- counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc. · counter
- counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.) · counter
Example sentences
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.
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Kanji in 件
Related words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 件.
Source: JMdict entry 1255940 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.