Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N2

1453 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 11

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

Kunyomi: かわ.く かわ.かす ほ.す ひ.る いぬい

Onyomi: カン ケン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: おつ

Meaning: second

Strokes: 1

Examples

Examples with audio

季(かんき)   dry season

物(かんぶつ)   dry foods, dry goods

電池(かんでんち)   dry cell, battery

燥機(かんそうき)   dryer, drying machine

燥する(かんそうする)   dry, season, become parched

杯する(かんぱいする)   make a toast

かす(かわかす)   dry , desiccate [v.t.]

く(かわく)   dry [v.i.]

Onyomi Examples

電池 カンデンチ dry cell, battery

カンソウ dryness, aridity, drying (e.g. clothes), dehydration, desiccation, insipidity

ソッカン drying quickly

ラカン Chinese smoked and salted ham

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

ケンイ northwest

Kunyomi Examples

かわく to get dry

かす かわかす to dry (clothes, etc.), to desiccate

干す ほす to air, to dry, to desiccate, to drain (off), to drink up, to deprive of a role, job, etc.

戌亥 いぬい northwest