| 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) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1453 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
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
- Korean:
- gan, geon
Spanish
- seco
- secar
- secarse
- desecarse
Portuguese
- seca
- dessecar
- evaporar
- paraíso
- imperador
French
- sécheresse
- sécher
- dessécher
- vider (verre)
- cieux
- empereur
| 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 |
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 瓠 【フクベ】 Lagenaria siceraria var. gourda (variety of bottle gourd), gourd (container) made from its fruit, Lagenaria siceraria var. depressa (variety of bottle gourd)
- 瓠 【ヒサゴ】 gourd, calabash, bottle gourd, dried gourd, used as flask
Kun reading compounds
- 瓠 【ひさご】 gourd, calabash, bottle gourd, dried gourd, used as flask
- 瓠 【ふくべ】 Lagenaria siceraria var. gourda (variety of bottle gourd), gourd (container) made from its fruit, Lagenaria siceraria var. depressa (variety of bottle gourd)
Readings
- Korean:
- pyo
Spanish
Portuguese
French
| 2975 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 2668 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2356 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1657 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 21419X | Morohashi |
| 3688 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 2911 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 2920 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 4e12.3 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-11-6 | SKIP code |
| 1293.0 | Four corner code |
| 1-41-27 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 74e2 | Unicode hex code |