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乾
JLPT N2 11 strokes Frequency: #1453

Meanings

Drought, Dry, Dessicate, Drink Up, Heaven, Emperor

Radicals

乙

Decomposition

⿰龺乞

Etymology

Ideographic: Rays 十 emanating from the 日; 乞 provides the pronunciation

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 11

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-to-top
2 vertical right-to-left
3 vertical bottom-to-top
4 corner bottom-to-top
5 horizontal left-to-right
6 horizontal bottom-to-top
7 horizontal bottom-to-top
8 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left
9 diagonal top-to-bottom
10 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left
11 corner bottom-right-to-top-left
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
カン kan
ケン ken
Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)
ほ ho
かわ kawa
いぬい inui
ひ hi

Words Using This Kanji

119 words total
Other (20 words)
乾燥地農業 かんそうちのうぎょう

dry farming

乾地農法 かんちのうほう

dry farming

乾裂 かんれつ

cracks in drying lumber

干乾し ひぼし

starvation

半乾き はんかわき

half dry

乾物 かんぶつ

dry provisions

乾 けん

qian (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: heaven, northwest)

乾板 かんぱん

dry plate

乾飯 かれい

dried boiled rice

陰乾し かげぼし

drying in the shade

乾燥季 かんそうき

dry season

乾杯 かんぱい

cheers

乾季 かんき

dry season

天道乾 てんとうぼし

sun-dried

乾布摩擦 かんぷまさつ

rubdown with a dry towel

乾式 かんしき

dry (method)

乾湿球湿度計 かんしつきゅうしつどけい

wet and dry-bulb thermometer

不乾性油 ふかんせいゆ

non-drying oil

積層乾電池 せきそうかんでんち

layered dry cell (battery)

生乾き なまかわき

half-dried

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