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

Speed

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

11 strokes
Radical:
mound, dam (阝 left) 阜 (阝)
Parts:
Variants:
hump, high, noble, prosperity
On:
リュウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1109 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 隆盛 【リュウセイ】 prosperity, flourishing, thriving
  • 隆起 【リュウキ】 protuberance, bulge, protrusion, projection, swell, rise, uplift, upheaval, elevation
  • 興隆 【コウリュウ】 rise, prosperity
  • 膨隆 【ボウリュウ】 swelling up

Readings

Japanese names:
お、 たか、 たかし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
long2, long1
Korean:
ryung

Spanish

  • montículo
  • giba
  • alto
  • próspero
  • floreciente

Portuguese

  • corcova
  • alto
  • nobre
  • prosperidade

French

  • protubérance
  • haut
  • noble
  • prospérité
1901 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1255 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4999 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1193 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1876 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1313 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
946 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
976 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1926 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
741 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
661 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
401 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
498 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1575 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
41720P Morohashi
545 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6455 New Nelson (John Haig)
1561 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1682 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1500 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3672 2001 Kanji
2d8.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
7721.4 Four corner code
1-46-20 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9686 Unicode hex code