Jisho

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干

3 strokes
Radical:
pestle 干
Parts:
一 十 干
dry, parch, ebb, recede, interfere, intercede
Kun:
ほ.す、 ほ.し-、 -ぼ.し、 ひ.る
On:
カン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
1349 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 関与 【カンヨ】 participation, taking part in, participating in, being concerned in
  • 干渉 【カンショウ】 interference, intervention, meddling
  • 水干 【スイカン】 everyday garment worn by nobles in ancient Japan, silk dried after having been washed in plain water and stretched out
  • 十干 【ジッカン】 ten celestial stems (two types each of wood, fire, earth, metal, water), ten heavenly stems

Kun reading compounds

  • 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

Readings

Japanese names:
ほし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gan1, gan4
Korean:
gan, gang

Spanish

  • secarse
  • secar
  • relacionar
  • airear

Portuguese

  • sêco
  • ressecar

French

  • sec
  • dessécher
840 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
825 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1179 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1492 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1542 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
502 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
26 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
584 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
593 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
506 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
572 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4187 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2116 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2863 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1663 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
9165 Morohashi
3379 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1589 New Nelson (John Haig)
1648 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1777 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
826 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3155 2001 Kanji
2k1.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-3-1 SKIP code
1040.0 Four corner code
1-20-19 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5e72 Unicode hex code

場

12 strokes
Radical:
earth 土
Parts:
一 土 日 勿
Variants:
塲
location, place
Kun:
ば
On:
ジョウ、 チョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
52 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 場 【ジョウ】 place, spot, grounds, arena, stadium, range, course
  • 場外 【ジョウガイ】 outside the hall (or stadium, market, etc.), off the grounds, off the premises, off-track
  • 斎場 【サイジョウ】 funeral hall, ceremony site
  • 開場 【カイジョウ】 opening (the doors of a venue), inauguration (of a new building, facility, etc.)

Kun reading compounds

  • 場 【ば】 place, spot, space, field, discipline, sphere, realm, occasion, situation, scene (of a play, movie, etc.), session, field, table, area in which cards are laid out, round (east, south, etc.), field, field (in Gestalt psychology)
  • 場合 【ばあい】 case, occasion, situation, circumstances
  • 木場 【きば】 lumberyard
  • 漁場 【ぎょじょう】 fishing grounds, permitted fishing zone

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chang2, chang3
Korean:
jang

Spanish

  • lugar
  • situación
  • momento

Portuguese

  • localização
  • lugar

French

  • lieu
  • place
  • aire
  • champ (magnétique)
252 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
161 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
144 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
34 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1113 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
250 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
145 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
3.2 Japanese for Busy People
154 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
154 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
335 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
380 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
678 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
408 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
512 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
551 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5278 Morohashi
558 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1058 New Nelson (John Haig)
545 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
584 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
49 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
216 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1451 2001 Kanji
3b9.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-9 SKIP code
4612.7 Four corner code
1-30-76 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5834 Unicode hex code