Jisho

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20 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
Variants:
column, handrail, blank, space
Kun:
てすり
On:
ラン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1523 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 欄 【ラン】 section (e.g. in a newspaper), column, page, field (in a form, web page, etc.), blank, handrail, railing, banister, balustrade
  • 欄干 【ランカン】 railing, guard rail, handrail, banister, balustrade, parapet, (shining) brightly (of the moon or stars), (flowing) endlessly (of tears)
  • 本欄 【ホンラン】 this column
  • 演芸欄 【エンゲイラン】 entertainment section (of a newspaper), entertainment column

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lan2
Korean:
ran

Spanish

  • barandilla
  • pasamanos
  • en blanco
  • espacio
  • columna (periódico)

Portuguese

  • coluna
  • corrimão
  • vazio
  • espaço

French

  • colonne de journal
  • rampe
  • blanc
  • espace
1893 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1430 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2401 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1696 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1447 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1202 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1265 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1538 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1118 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1419 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
754 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1023 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1642 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
15880P Morohashi
1103 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2914 New Nelson (John Haig)
1628 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1756 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1931 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1864 2001 Kanji
4a16.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-16 SKIP code
4792.0 Four corner code
1-45-83 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6b04 Unicode hex code

3 strokes
Radical:
pestle
Parts:
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