乾

Readings

Kana: カン、ケン、かわ.く、かわ.かす、ほ.す、ひ.る、いぬい

Romaji: kan, ken, kawa.ku, kawa.kasu, ho.su, hi.ru, inui

Kana

Romaji

Meanings

drought, dry, dessicate, drink up, heaven, emperor

Stroke Diagram

Kanji Info

Stroke Count: 11

Radical Number: 24

Frequency: 1453

Grade: 8

Skip Pattern: 1-8-3

Korean Reading: geon

Chinese Reading: qian2

Unicode: 4e7e

JIS: 3425

Indexes

Halpern Index: 1679

Nelson Index: 784

New Nelson Index: 63

Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 4c7.14

Four Corner Index: 4841.7

Guide to Remembering Index: 1099

Gakken Index: 1355

Japanese Names Index: 1411

Daikanwanjiten Index: 204

Daikanwanjiten Index and Page: 1.0396

Remembering the kanji Index: 463

Kanji Flashcards Index: 292

Kodansha Compact Index: 27

Kanji in Context Index: 904

1999 Kanji Learners Index: 1101

2013 Kanji Learners Index: 1500

French Remembering the Kanji Index: 473

Remembering the Kanji 6th Index: 502

Essential Kanji Index: 1195

Kodansha Kanji Index: 2113

Roo 2001 Kanji Index: 1556

Tuttle Kanji Cards Index: 1407

Words

乾 (けん)

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

戌亥 (いぬい)

northwest

乾杯 (かんぱい)

toast; drink (in celebration or in honor of something); drinking one's glass dry; cheers

乾く (かわく)

to get dry

乾式 (かんしき)

dry process

干し (ほし)

drying; dried

乾燥 (かんそう)

dryness; aridity; insipidity; dehydration; desiccation

乾電池 (かんでんち)

dry cell; battery

乾期 (かんき)

dry season

干し物 (ほしもの)

things dried in the sun (esp. clothes, dyed cloth, etc.)

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