韓 means “Korea”

かん · kan

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

から, いげた

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

カン

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 18 strokes

The story

The left of 朝, morning, the sun (日) between two crosses (十), beside 韋, a guarded wall: picture dawn breaking over a walled kingdom. 韓国 is South Korea, and 韓流, read はんりゅう after the Korean, is the Korean Wave of dramas and K-pop.

Used in 韓国 (kankoku, South Korea), 日韓 (nikkan, Japan and South Korea), and 韓国語 (kankokugo, Korean language)

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.