# 件 — Matter

Frequency rank 266 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 郎 (Guy), less common than 議 (Deliberation).

- On’yomi: けん
- Kun’yomi: くだん
- Radical: 人 Person (Kangxi 9)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX
- School grade: 5
- Strokes: 6

The two enormous bare legs stride into Shibuya crossing at the head of the herd, a cow's horned head hoisted up on a pole above them as their standard.

In words:

- 件 くだん — example;precedent;the usual;the said;the above-mentioned;(man) in question
- 事件 じけん — event,affair,incident
- 条件 じょうけん — conditions,terms

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