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肯 — Agreement

JLPT N28 strokesSecondary school#1813 most used
agreement, consent, comply with
On’yomiコウ (kou)
Kun’yomiがえんじ (gaenjiru)

Stroke order (8 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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Common words using 肯

WordReadingMeaning
肯定こうてい
koutei
affirmation; affirmative

Study notes

肯 is a JLPT N2 kanji written with 8 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1813 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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