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巌 — Rock

JLPT N120 strokesSecondary school#1986 most used
rock, crag, boulder
On’yomiガン (gan)
Kun’yomiいわ (iwa)
Kun’yomiいわお (iwao)
Kun’yomiけわしい (kewashii)

Stroke order (20 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).

Study notes

巌 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 20 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1986 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).

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