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Kanji for Scroll
The kanji for “scroll” is 巻, read kan and written in 9 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
巻
scroll
A scroll or volume of a book.
Chouju-giga (鳥獣戯画), painted on classical paper scrolls (Emaki) in the 12th century, is considered Japan's very first comic art.
9 strokes On reading カン、ケン (kan, ken) Kun reading まく、まき (maku, maki) JLPT N2
Dictionary meanings: scroll, volume, book, part, roll up
Readings used for names on Nazuke: kan, ken, maki
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