Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
second 乛 (乙, ⺄, 乚)
Parts:
Variants:
drought, dry, dessicate, drink up, heaven, emperor
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1453 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 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

Kun reading compounds

  • 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

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gan1, qian2
Korean:
gan, geon

Spanish

  • seco
  • secar
  • secarse
  • desecarse

Portuguese

  • seca
  • dessecar
  • evaporar
  • paraíso
  • imperador

French

  • sécheresse
  • sécher
  • dessécher
  • vider (verre)
  • cieux
  • empereur
1099 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1355 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
784 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1195 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
292 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1411 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1190 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1249 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
904 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
27 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2113 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1101 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1500 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
473 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
204 Morohashi
1679 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
63 New Nelson (John Haig)
463 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
502 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1407 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1556 2001 Kanji
4c7.14 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-3 SKIP code
1-8-4 SKIP code
4841.7 Four corner code
1-20-05 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e7e Unicode hex code

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On reading compounds

  • し尿 【シニョウ】 excreta, raw sewage, human waste, night soil
  • 屎尿処理 【シニョウショリ】 sewage disposal

Kun reading compounds

  • 糞 【くそ】 damn, damn it, shit, crap, feces, excrement, dung, damn, damned, blasted, stupid, very, extremely, really, terrible, awful, shit, crap, a lot, negligible, insignificant, not mattering at all, counting for nothing, hardly worth consideration, out of the question
  • 星屎 【ほしくそ】 meteorite
  • 金屎 【かなくそ】 slag, dross, iron rust

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shi3
Korean:
si, hoe

Spanish

Portuguese

French

1390 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
989 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
7689 Morohashi
1419 New Nelson (John Haig)
3r6.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-6 SKIP code
7729.4 Four corner code
1-53-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5c4e Unicode hex code

On reading compounds

  • 乾屎橛 【カンシケツ】 something worthless, something impure, something unimportant, dried excrement in the shape of a stick

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jue2

Spanish

Portuguese

French

15556 Morohashi
1-4-12 SKIP code
1-37-16 JIS X 0212-1990 kuten code
1-86-15 JIS X 0213-2000 kuten code
6a5b Unicode hex code