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県

Level IV of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 467 / 2,608

Prefecture

On’yomi
けん
Kun’yomi
—
Radical
目 Eye (Kangxi 109)
School grade
3
Strokes
9

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

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

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 prefectureN3
県庁 けんちょう prefectural officeN2

県 is rank 467 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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