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Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N2

1453 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 11

Meaning: drought, dry, desiccate, 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: 𠦝 乞

乾

Radical

Radical: 乛

Reading: おつ

Meaning: second

Strokes: 1

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Examples

Examples with audio

乾季(かんき)   dry season

乾物(かんぶつ)   dry foods, dry goods

乾電池(かんでんち)   dry cell, battery

乾燥機(かんそうき)   dryer, drying machine

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

乾杯する(かんぱいする)   make a toast

乾かす(かわかす)   dry , desiccate [v.t.]

乾く(かわく)   dry [v.i.]

Onyomi Examples

乾電池 (カンデンチ) dry cell battery

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

速乾 (ソッカン) drying quickly

臘乾 (ラカン) Chinese smoked and salted ham

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

乾位 (ケンイ) northwest

Kunyomi Examples

乾く (かわく) to get dry

乾かす (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.

干る (ひる) to dry (up), to become parched, to ebb, to recede

戌亥 (いぬい) northwest

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