冠かん
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Meanings
Noun
1. traditional cap worn by Shinto clergy and courtiers
2. crown; diadem; coronet
Taru-adjective
Adverb taking と
3. best; peerless; first
Counter
4. counter for titles
Other readings
Kanji used
Pitch accent
かん
Used in vocabulary
冠かん婚こん葬そう祭さい
important ceremonial occasions in family relationships
Noun
三さん重じゅう冠かん
(papal) triple tiara
Noun
不ふ定てい冠かん詞し
indefinite article
Noun
冠かん不ふ全ぜん
coronary insufficiency
Noun
部ぶ分ぶん冠かん詞し
partitive article (e.g. "du" in French)
Noun
冠かん位い十じゅう二に階かい
first system to rank officials into 12 levels (603 CE)
Noun
触しょく手しゅ冠かん動どう物ぶつ
lophophorate (a tube worm, moss animal or lampshell)
Noun
Examples3
The girl in the picture is wearing a crown not of gold but of flowers.
Mayuko wore a flower crown.
The teacher put on a crown of flowers made by her pupils.