# 然 — Nature

Frequency rank 234 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

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

More common than 頭 (Head), less common than 市 (City).

- On’yomi: ぜん、ねん
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 火 Fire (Kangxi 86)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX

The man with his back on Fire boils down to fat in the ditch under the Moon, and the Dog laps the slick and drags his tick along the fence.

In words:

- 然し しかし — however;but
- 然も さも — with gusto;with satisfaction
- 然して そして — and

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