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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Stroke order

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

13 strokes
Radical:
fire 火 (灬)
Parts:
broil, parch, roast, boil
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2458 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 煎 【セン】 infusing (tea), infusion
  • 煎餅 【センベイ】 (Japanese) rice cracker, senbei
  • 焙煎 【バイセン】 roasting (e.g. of coffee)
  • 香煎 【コウセン】 flour made from parched barley, powdered roast grain mixed with herbs, spices, dried citrus peel, etc. (added to hot water to make a drink)

Kun reading compounds

  • 煎じる 【せんじる】 to boil, to decoct, to infuse
  • 炒る 【いる】 to roast, to parch, to toast, to boil down

Readings

Japanese names:
いり
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jian1
Korean:
jeon

Spanish

Portuguese

French

611 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1933 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2950 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2054 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
19184X Morohashi
3453 New Nelson (John Haig)
2548 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
310 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
940 2001 Kanji
2o11.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-10 SKIP code
8033.2 Four corner code
1-32-89 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
714e Unicode hex code