Readings

Kana: カン、そそ.ぐ
Romaji: kan, soso.gu
Kana
Romaji

Meaning

pour

Stroke Diagram

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Kanji Info

Stroke Count:  20
Radical Number:  85
Frequency: 
Grade: 
Skip Pattern:  1-3-17
Korean Reading:  gwan
Chinese Reading:  guan4
Unicode:  704c
JIS:  5E75

Indexes

Nelson Index: 2739
New Nelson Index: 3390
Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 3a17.3
Four Corner Index: 3811.4
Daikanwanjiten Index: 18759X
Daikanwanjiten Index and Page: 7.0251

Words

灌漑 (かんがい)
irrigation
潅水 (かんすい)
sprinkling (water); watering (plants)
湯灌 (ゆかん)
washing a corpse for burial
灌木 (かんぼく)
bush; shrub
かん流 (かんりゅう)
perfusion
灌頂 (かんじょう、かんちょう)
baptism-like ceremony performed by the buddhas on a bodhisattva who attains buddhahood; baptism-like ceremony for conferring onto someone precepts, a mystic teaching, etc. (in esoteric Buddhism); pouring water onto a gravestone; teaching esoteric techniques, compositions, etc. (in Japanese poetry or music)
注ぐ (そそぐ)
to pour (into); to fill; to sprinkle on from above; to shed (e.g. tears); to concentrate one's spirit (strength, attention) on; to fall onto (of rain, snow)
浣腸 (かんちょう)
(giving an) enema
灌漑用水 (かんがいようすい)
irrigation water
伝法灌頂 (でんぼうかんじょう)
consecration ritual for the conferral of the status of Acharya (in esoteric Buddhism)
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