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

13 strokes
Radical:
wine, alcohol
Parts:
dairy products, whey, broth, fruit juice
On:
ラク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2012 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 酪 【ラク】 acidic drink made from fermented milk (cow, sheep, mare; one of the five flavors in Buddhism)
  • 酪農 【ラクノウ】 dairy farming
  • 製酪 【セイラク】 dairy production (butter, cheese, etc.)
  • 牛酪 【ギュウラク】 butter

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lao4, luo4
Korean:
rag

Spanish

  • productos lácteos
  • productos de uso diario

Portuguese

  • produtos lácteos
  • creme
  • caldo
  • suco de fruta

French

  • produits laitiers
  • petit-lait
  • bouillon
  • jus de fruits
1891 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1868 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4786 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1754 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1834 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1865 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2025 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1593 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1794 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1940 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1035 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1398 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1445 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
39847 Morohashi
1538 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6172 New Nelson (John Haig)
1433 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1541 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1679 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3277 2001 Kanji
7e6.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-6 SKIP code
1766.4 Four corner code
1-45-79 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
916a Unicode hex code