# 県 — Prefecture

Frequency rank 467 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

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

More common than 製 (Manufacture), less common than 個 (Individual).

- On’yomi: けん
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 目 Eye (Kangxi 109)
- Frequency path: Level IV of XX
- School grade: 3
- Strokes: 9

An eye (eye) stares from the top and small (small) sits below — the eye of the governor watches over even the smallest detail in the prefecture, overseeing everything from above.

In words:

- 県 けん — prefecture
- 県庁 けんちょう — prefectural office

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