First opened Wednesday, August 15, 2012
貫禄
かんろく
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
presence, dignity
Kanroku originally referred to a samurai's pay, from 貫 (kan) plus 禄 (roku), the salary of someone in government service.
Taken apart
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Wiktionary's text doesn't split this word, so each part is one of its kanji (with the okurigana written after it), with the reading and the dictionary meaning KANJIDIC2 gives that character — a word doesn't always use every sense of its kanji.
In a sentence
貫禄がついたね。
You look very dignified.
君は課長としての貫禄がないね。
You don't have proper dignity as chief of the section.
Sentences are from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), picked by fixed rules from a dated export and shown unchanged. Nobody has reviewed them one by one.
What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “Originally referred to the (amount of) pay that a samurai in employment received and, by extension, his importance. The word consists of 貫(かん) (kan) (in its now obsolete meaning of the monetary equivalent of the income (based on crop) of a samurai) and 禄(ろく) (roku), the salary of someone in government service.”
Source: Wiktionary: 貫禄 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.