灌 — Chinese character
灌
guàn
to water, to irrigate; to pour; to flood
- Pinyin
- guàn
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 21
- Components
- 氵 雚
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 雚
- Japanese
- 灌 as a kanji
Common words with 灌
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 灌溉 | guàn gài | to irrigate |
| 灌输 (灌輸) | guàn shū | to imbue with; to inculcate |
| 灌木 | guàn mù | bush; shrub |
| 灌木丛 (灌木叢) | guàn mù cóng | shrub; shrubbery |
| 灌丛 (灌叢) | guàn cóng | scrub; shrubland |
| 灌醉 | guàn zuì | to fuddle; to befuddle |
| 灌注 | guàn zhù | to pour or inject (a liquid or substance) into sth; (fig.) to concentrate (one's energy, spirit etc) on sth |
| 灌区 (灌區) | guàn qū | area under irrigation |
| 灌肠 (灌腸) | guàn cháng | enema; to give an enema |
| 灌肠 (灌腸) | guàn chang | sausage with a starchy filling |
| 灌篮 (灌籃) | guàn lán | slam dunk |
| 浇灌 (澆灌) | jiāo guàn | to water; to irrigate |
English words written with 灌
灌 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · Zhuangzi 4
- Analects 3.10
- Zhuangzi Transcendental Bliss
- Zhuangzi The Universe
- Zhuangzi Autumn Floods
- Zhuangzi Contingencies
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.