寛 means “tolerant, lenient, generous”

かん · kan

Also: leniency, generosity, relax

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading): くつろぐ, ひろい, ゆるやか
On'yomi (Chinese reading): カン

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 13 strokes

The story

A roof (宀) over grass (艹) and an eye that sees (見): picture a house with room to look out over a meadow. 寛 is broad-minded: 寛容 is tolerance, 寛大な処置 lenient treatment, and くつろぐ, to make yourself at home, can be written 寛ぐ.

Used in 寛容 (kan'you, tolerance), 寛大 (kandai, generous/lenient), and 寛ぐ (kutsurogu, to relax, usually in kana)

寛 means “tolerant, lenient, generous”

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