干 — kanji meaning “dry”
干
dry, parch, ebb, recede, interfere, intercede
- Meanings
- dry, parch, ebb, recede, interfere, intercede
- On'yomi
- カン (kan)
- Kun'yomi
- ほ.す、ほ.し-、-ぼ.し、ひ.る
- Name readings
- ほし
- Strokes
- 3
- School grade
- 6
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 2
- Newspaper frequency
- #1349 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 51
- Chinese reading
- gān, gàn — Chinese character page
Words with 干
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 若干 | じゃっかん jakkan | some; few; a number of |
| 干渉 | かんしょう kanshou | interference; intervention; meddling |
| 梅干し | うめぼし umeboshi | umeboshi; pickled dried ume; pickled dried plum |
| 干す | ほす hosu | to air; to dry; to desiccate |
| 干潟 | ひがた higata | tidal flat; tideland |
| 物干し | ものほし monohoshi | frame for drying clothes; clotheshorse |
| 干拓 | かんたく kantaku | land reclamation (from sea) |
| 干支 | えと eto | sexagenary cycle; 60-term cycle of 12 zodiac animals combined with 5 elements in the traditional Chinese calendar; currently used in Japan for years, historically also for days |
| 若干 | そこばく sokobaku | some; few; a number of |
| 欄干 | らんかん rankan | railing; guard rail; handrail |
| 干満 | かんまん kanman | ebb and flow |
| 煮干 | にぼし niboshi | (small crunchy) dried sardines |
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