~刊

~かん · ~kan · JLPT N2 · noun

magazine

📰 刊 = 干 + 刂 (knife): text carved into woodblocks for printing

Books were once printed from carved wooden blocks, so the knife radical 刂 came to mean publishing. As a suffix it says how often something comes out: 日刊 daily, 週刊 weekly, 月刊 monthly.

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