| 458 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 565 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 538 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1356 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 1273 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 644 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 457 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1540 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 910 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 932 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 448 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 463 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 492 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 305 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 370 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1405 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 6987 | Morohashi |
| 410 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1296 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1393 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1494 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 551 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
1388 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 孫 【ソン】 descendant (usu. of a certain generation), lineage, pedigree, grandchild
- 孫悟空 【ソンゴクウ】 Sun Wukong (character in the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West), Monkey King, Son Goku (Dragon Ball)
- 愛孫 【アイソン】 one's beloved grandchild
- 外孫 【ガイソン】 grandchild from a daughter married into another family
Kun reading compounds
- 孫 【まご】 grandchild
- 孫子 【まごこ】 children and grandchildren, posterity, descendants
- 初孫 【ういまご】 first grandchild
- 内孫 【ないそん】 child of one's heir
Readings
- Japanese names:
- ひ
- Korean:
- son
Spanish
- nieto
- descendientes
Portuguese
- neto
- descendentes
French
- petits-enfants
- descendants
| 3541 | 2001 Kanji |
| 2c7.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-3-7 | SKIP code |
| 1-2-7 | SKIP code |
| 1249.3 | Four corner code |
| 1-34-25 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 5b6b | Unicode hex code |
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
| 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 |