灌
Readings
Kana:
カン、そそ.ぐ
Romaji:
kan, soso.gu
Meaning
pour
Stroke Diagram
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)