漢字Kanji · in Time & Sequence
乾: drought, dry
Also: desiccate, drink up, heaven, emperor
JLPT N211 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 𠦝(form)
- 乞beg(form)
𠦝 and 乞 are drawn in
11 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
カンkan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 乾季かんきdry season
- 乾物かんぶつdry foods, dry goods
- 乾電池かんでんちdry cell, battery
- 乾燥機かんそうきdryer, drying machine
- 乾燥するかんそうするdry, season, become parched
- 乾杯するかんぱいするmake a toast
かわくkawaku · kun'yomi · on its own
- 乾くかわくdry [v.i.]
かわかすkawakasu · kun'yomi
- 乾かすかわかすdry , desiccate [v.t.]
Also read ケン, ほす, ひる, いぬい, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)倝 (sound) + 乙 (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 乾 (rev. 93664282), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Rising sun (倝) + winding sprout (乙). The sun beating down on a "sprout" until the moisture is gone, leaving the land parched and "dry."”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
𠦝
Also built on 𠦝
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side乾 drought · 乞
vs朝 morning · 月In ChineseSimplified 干 · traditional, as in Japanese · gàn
Japan keeps the traditional form 乾; mainland China simplifies it to 干.
- Simplified
- 干 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 乾 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin gàn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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