Nihoner
漢字 Kanji list Games
Log in Play Kanji Duel
閹

Eunuch

On’yomiえん・あん
Kun’yomiおお.う
16 strokes Radical 門 gate
書き順 · Stroke order

How to write 閹

Stroke order is not decoration — it determines how the character looks handwritten and how dictionaries index it.

閹
16 strokes
✎ Now write it yourself

Draw it on screen and be marked on stroke order and direction.

分解 · What it is made of

The parts of 閹

Almost every kanji is built from a small set of reusable parts. Learn the parts once and you stop memorising thousands of unrelated shapes.

部首 · Radical

The radical of 閹

門 Radical 169 of 214
Gate

The radical is the part a paper dictionary files a kanji under, and it usually hints at meaning. 閹 is filed under 門 (gate) — radical number 169 of the 214 in the Kangxi system.

Other kanji built on 門

練習 · Practice

Drill 閹 right now

Three quick games built from this character's real data. Your streak is kept in this browser.

0Streak
0Best
0Correct
閹Tap to reveal
Eunuch えん・あん おお.う
閹
What does it mean?
—
Which kanji is it?

Think you know which kanji is more common?

Kanji Duel pits 閹 and 3,000 others head to head. One life. How long can you last?

Enter the Duel →
質問 · Questions

About the kanji 閹

What does the kanji 閹 mean?

閹 means Eunuch.

How do you read the kanji 閹?

閹 is read on'yomi (Chinese-derived) えん、あん; kun'yomi (native Japanese) おお.う.

How many strokes does 閹 have?

閹 is written with 16 strokes. The animated diagram on this page shows the correct order.

What is the radical of 閹?

The radical of 閹 is 門 (gate), radical number 169 of the 214 Kangxi radicals. The radical is the component a dictionary files the character under, and it usually points at the character's meaning.

What parts is the kanji 閹 made of?

閹 is built from 門 (gate) and 奄 (cover). Learning kanji as combinations of a few hundred reusable components is far more efficient than memorising each character as a separate shape.

読

None of this is being saved

Signed in, we would remember every character you have looked at — and write you reading you can actually get through, built from exactly those.

Start remembering — free
Free account · 3 passages a day · no card