Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 4

JLPT level: N2

517 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 14

Meaning: pipe, tube, wind instrument, drunken talk, control, jurisdiction

Kunyomi: くだ

Onyomi: カン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: たけかんむり

Meaning: bamboo

Strokes: 6

Examples

Examples with audio

菅(かん)   pipe, tube, duct

轄(かんかつ)   jurisdiction, control

楽器(かんがっき)   wind instrument

(はいかん)   plumbing, piping

(けっかん)   blood vessel

(きかん)   trachea

水道(すいどうかん)   water pipe

試験(しけんかん)   test tube

理する(かんりする)   control, manage

する(ほかんする)   keep, have in one's custody

(くだ)   pipe, tube

Onyomi Examples

カン pipe, tube

カンカツ jurisdiction, control

ハイカン plumbing, piping

イカン transfer of control

Kunyomi Examples

かん pipe, tube

くだぎつね kuda-gitsune, pipe fox, fox-like spirit kept inside a bamboo tube and used by its master to perform divinations and curses, stoat

手練手 てれんてくだ wiles, art of coaxing

てくだ wiles, trick, artifice, coquetry