This site will be taken down March 31st, 2026.

This was not an easy decision to make. For the last couple years, I have been struggling to find motivation for this site and to keep up with basic maintenance and security updates. With the rise of AI and more sophisticated tools, the usefulness of sites like this is questionable and traffic has nose-dived. I just don't have it in me to keep doing this. Thank you all for 10 years of support!

Zach

Readings

Kana: ガン、まる、まる.める、まる.い
Romaji: gan, maru, maru.meru, maru.i
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Romaji

Name Readings

Kana: ま、わ、わに
Romaji: ma, wa, wani
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Romaji

Meanings

round, full (month), perfection, -ship, pills, make round, roll up, curl up, seduce, explain away

Stroke Diagram

123

Kanji Info

Stroke Count:  3
Radical Number:  4
Frequency:  542
Grade:  2
Skip Pattern:  4-3-4
Korean Reading:  hwan
Chinese Reading:  wan2
Unicode:  4e38
JIS:  345D

Indexes

Halpern Index: 3417
Nelson Index: 155
New Nelson Index: 34
Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 0a3.28
Four Corner Index: 5001.7
Guide to Remembering Index: 830
Gakken Index: 567
Japanese Names Index: 40
Daikanwanjiten Index: 94
Daikanwanjiten Index and Page: 1.0320
Remembering the kanji Index: 44
Kanji Flashcards Index: 288
Kodansha Compact Index: 17
Read Writing Kanji Third Index: 101
Kanji in Context Index: 591
1999 Kanji Learners Index: 2134
2013 Kanji Learners Index: 2883
French Remembering the Kanji Index: 44
Remembering the Kanji 6th Index: 44
Essential Kanji Index: 922
Kodansha Kanji Index: 4225
Roo 2001 Kanji Index: 1657
Tuttle Kanji Cards Index: 82

Words

(がん)
fishball; meatball; pill
丸い (まるい、まろい)
round; circular; spherical; harmonious; calm
本丸 (ほんまる)
inner citadel; core; center; centre; focus; crux
烏丸 (うがん)
Wuhuan (proto-Mongolic nomadic people)
丸み (まるみ)
roundness; rotundity; mellowness; maturity
(まる)
circle; entirety; whole; full; complete; money; dough; moola; enclosure inside a castle's walls; soft-shelled turtle; suffix for ship names; suffix for names of people (esp. infants); suffix for names of swords, armour, musical instruments, etc.; suffix for names of dogs, horses, etc.
弾丸 (だんがん)
bullet; shot; shell
丸太 (まるた)
log
日の丸 (ひのまる)
outline of the sun (esp. represented as a red circle); the Japanese flag
二の丸 (にのまる)
outer citadel
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