| Word | Reading | Meaning |
| 顕著 | けんちょ | remarkable, striking, obvious |
| 顕彰 | けんしょう | manifesting, displaying, honouring, honoring |
| 顕在 | けんざい | actual (as opposed to hidden or obscured), actualized, actualised |
| 顕微鏡 | けんびきょう | microscope |
| 電子顕微鏡 | でんしけんびきょう | electron microscope |
| 顕 | あらわ | exposed, scanty, bare, unconcealed, naked; public, open |
| 顕 | けん | exposure, clarity; exoteric Buddhism |
| 顕す | あらわす | to reveal, to show, to display; to express; to represent, to signify, to stand for; to make widely known |
| 顕われる | あらわれる | to appear, to come in sight, to become visible, to come out, to embody, to materialize, to materialise; to be expressed (e.g. emotions), to become apparent (e.g. trends, effects) |
| 自己顕示 | じこけんじ | making oneself conspicuous, pressing one's own cause |