"県" meaning in Japanese

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Character

Forms: [kyūjitai]
  1. Tags: grade-3-kanji, kanji, no-gloss, shinjitai

Noun

Forms: [canonical] (ruby: (けん)), ken [romanization], けん [hiragana, historical]
Head templates: {{ja-noun|けん|hhira=けん}} 県(けん) • (ken) ^(←けん (ken)?)
  1. a type of administrative district, including 43 of the 47 prefectures of modern Japan, Chinese counties, French departments, etc. Derived forms: 都道府県 (todōfuken) (ruby: (), (どう), (), (けん)) (english: political subdivisions of Japan)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Download JSON data for 県 meaning in Japanese (2.8kB)

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    "Japanese kanji with goon reading げん",
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    "Japanese kanji with historical goon reading げん",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e268c0e and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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