Kenzo may be written in a variety of kanji characters and can signify one of three things: Xian San, "smart, three," Jian San, "healthy, three," or Qian San, "humble, three." The character used to write out Kenzo is called a "trigraph" because it has three parts to it. There is a radical that means "to eat" followed by a phonetic syllable that changes depending on which part you use. The first part of the trigraph indicates what kind of food is being talked about. The second part indicates how much of that food is being talked about. And the third part indicates that something else is also being talked about under another topic. In this case, the other topic is fashion. So writing Kenzo with three kanji means eating smartly, healthfully, and modestly. There are four types of radicals that can appear in a Japanese dictionary: food, person/animal, color, and object. Objects such as buildings, tools, and vehicles also have their own unique radicals that show how they are used. For example, the radical for "bell" can be used to make words like "gong" and "tokyo" while the radical for "scissors" can be used to make words like "cut" and "guilty."