兼
- Meaning
- concurrently and beforehand in advance
- On reading
- ケン
- Kun reading
- か.ねる | -か.ねる
- Nanori
- かね
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 12
- Grade
- 8
- JLPT
- 1
- Frequency
- 1164
Stroke order
Words using 兼
- 気兼ね きがね — constraint
- 兼 けん — and (concurrently; e.g. chauffeur and secretary)
- 兼ねる かねる — to be unable to
- 兼ね合い かねあい — equilibrium
- 兼ね備える かねそなえる — to have both
- 兼任 けんにん — serving concurrently as
- 兼務 けんむ — serving concurrently as
- 待ちかねる まちかねる — to wait impatiently for
- 予て かねて — previously
- 兼営 けんえい — operating or carrying on simultaneously
- 兼業農家 けんぎょうのうか — part-time farmer
- 兼職 けんしょく — holding another position
- 兼用 けんよう — multi-use
- 兼業 けんぎょう — pursuing as a side business
- お待ちかね おまちかね — long-awaited
- 耐えかねる たえかねる — to be unable to endure
- 居間兼寝室 いまけんしんしつ — living room and bedroom
- 兼す けんす — to combine with
- 兼ね仕える かねつかえる — to serve at the same time
- 兼ね役 かねやく — carrying on a second line of work
- 兼官 けんかん — holding of concurrent (official) posts
- 兼勤 けんきん — additional post
- 兼行 けんこう — working twice as hard
- 兼修 けんしゅう — studying two subjects together (e.g. as a major and a minor)
- 兼摂 けんせつ — serving concurrently as
- 兼帯 けんたい — combined use
- 兼題 けんだい — subject for a poem (announced prior to a meeting of poets)
- 兼備 けんび — being proficient in both
- 兼併 けんぺい — uniting
- 兼補 けんぽ — carrying on a second line of work
- 才色兼備 さいしょくけんび — (a woman) being gifted with both intelligence and beauty
- 仕兼ねない しかねない — likely to do
- し兼ねる しかねる — to be reluctant to do
- 首相兼外相 しゅしょうけんがいしょう — prime minister also serving as foreign minister
- 申しかねる もうしかねる — to hesitate to say
- 昼夜兼行 ちゅうやけんこう — around-the-clock
- 兼々 かねがね — since long ago
- 見かねる みかねる — to be unable to just watch (without doing anything)
- 兼有 けんゆう — having both (at the same time)
- 言いかねる いいかねる — to find it hard to say