Kanji N3

件: affair, case, matter

件 is a JLPT N3 kanji meaning affair, case, matter, written with 6 strokes. It is read ケン (on) and くだん (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 5. You will see it in 事件 (じけん, event) and 条件 (じょうけん, condition).

件

Meanings

  • affair
  • case
  • matter
  • item
Strokes6
JLPT levelN3
School gradeGrade 5
Frequency#212 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • ケン

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • くだん

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 件

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 事件じけん

    event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble

    JLPT N3
  • 条件じょうけん

    condition; term; requirement; qualification

    JLPT N3
  • 用件ようけん

    business; thing to be done

    JLPT N1
  • 件くだん

    the aforementioned; the said

    JLPT N1
  • 件数けんすう

    number of cases, incidents, items, messages, accounts, etc.

  • 本件ほんけん

    this matter; this case

  • 物件ぶっけん

    article; thing; object

  • 要件ようけん

    important matter

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.