Kanji N1

憲: constitution, law

憲 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning constitution, law, written with 16 strokes. It is read ケン (on), and has no common kun reading. Children in Japan learn it in grade 6. You will see it in 憲法 (けんぽう, constitution) and 違憲 (いけん, unconstitutionality).

憲

Meanings

  • constitution
  • law
Strokes16
JLPT levelN1
School gradeGrade 6
Frequency#551 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • ケン

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

Kun reading
  • None in common use

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 憲

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

  • 憲法けんぽう

    constitution

    JLPT N3
  • 違憲いけん

    unconstitutionality

  • 憲章けんしょう

    charter

  • 護憲ごけん

    protecting the constitution

  • 改憲かいけん

    constitutional change; revising the constitution

  • 合憲ごうけん

    constitutionality

  • 憲政けんせい

    constitutional government

  • 立憲りっけん

    constitutionalism

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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.