common

カン/KAN/    せき/seki/    -ぜき/-zeki/    かか.わる/kaka.waru/    からくり/karakuri/    かんぬき/kannuki/KAN/カン/    seki/せき/    -zeki/-ぜき/    kaka.waru/かか.わる/    karakuri/からくり/    kannuki/かんぬき/

connection;  barrier;  gateway;  involve;  concerning

Radical: (gate).   Strokes: 14画.   Elements: 人大二ハ門并.   Variants: 關門.   Pinyin: guān.   Hangul:  [gwan]  [wan].

Jōyō Kanji 4th Grade.   JLPT N3.

Example compounds:
カンKAN重機じゅうきかんじゅうjūkikanjū】heavy machine gun
節炎かんせつえんkansetsuen】arthritis
かんぱくkanpaku】chief advisor to the Emperor (adviser)
せきsekiせきとりsekitori】ranking wrestler in the makuuchi (senior-grade) or juryo (junior-grade) divisions
せきわけsekiwake】wrestler of the third highest rank
せきseki】barrier; gate
かかわるkakawaruわるかかわるkakawaru】to be affected; to be concerned with; to stick to (opinions)
沽券にわるこけんにかかわるkokennikakawaru】to be a point of honor; to affect someone's good name
命にわるいのちにかかわるinochinikakawaru】to be a matter of life or death
からくりkarakuri覗き機のぞきからくりnozokikarakuri】peep show; device with lens mounted on a stand or in a box to view enlarged pictures
水機みずからくりmizukarakuri】puppet powered by (falling) water; water-powered contrivance; show using such a device (in Edo-period Osaka)
Codepoints and classification codes:
95a2Unicode
20-56JIS X 0208
3-8-6SKIP
8e6.7TKD
7743.0Four Corner
3863De Roo
Dictionary indices:
4958Classic Nelson
6402The New Nelson Character Dictionary by A. Nelson
3328New Japanese-English Character Dictionary by J. Halpern
2099Kanji Learner's Dictionary by J. Halpern
2017Remembering the Kanji by J. Heisig
104A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage (Gakken)
2245Japanese Names by P.G. O'Neill
289Essential Kanji by P.G. O'Neill
41297Daikanwajiten 「大漢和辞典」 by T. Morohashi vol. 11 p. 738
444A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters by K.G. Henshall
398Kanji & Kana by Spahn and Hadamitzky
365Guide to Reading & Writing Japanese (H) by F. Sakade
982Kanji Flashcards by M. Hodges and T. Okazaki
467Guide to Reading & Writing Japanese: Third Edition 3rd edition by Henshall
614Tuttle Kanji Cards by A. Kask
84The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power by D. Crowley
446Kanji in Context by Nishiguchi and Kono
3.7Japanese for Busy People by the AJLT
1844Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2036Y. Maniette's French adaptation of Heisig