Today’s #kanji is 阪, which is listed under its semantic element of #こざとへん（阝）, which means a hill, the earth, etc. Its phonetic element is 反. This kanji is mainly used for place names in Japanese.
Meaning: a slope
Reading: ハン、さか*
阪急（ハンキュウ）: Hankyu Corporation is a Japanese private railway company that provides commuter and interurban service to the northern Kansai region and is one of the flagship properties of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc., in turn part of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hankyu
阪神（ハンシン）：大阪 and 神戸. There is a baseball team called 阪神タイガース which is based near Kobe.
京阪（ケイハン）: 大阪 and 京都. There is also a railway operator called 京阪電気鉄道, which operates in Osaka, Kyoto and Shiga Prefectures.
大阪（おおさか）: Osaka, the largest city/prefecture in the Western part of Japan.
Be careful that the famous tennis player, Naomi Osaka’s surname is written as 大坂. 坂 is more common way of writing さか, a slope.
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- こざとへん
陽
