漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food
管: pipe, tube
Also: wind instrument, drunken talk, control, jurisdiction
JLPT N214 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
竹 carries the meaning · 官 gives the sound
14 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
カンkan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 管轄かんかつjurisdiction, control
- 管楽器かんがっきwind instrument
- 配管はいかんplumbing, piping
- 血管けっかんblood vessel
- 気管きかんtrachea
- 水道管すいどうかんwater pipe
- 試験管しけんかんtest tube
- 管理するかんりするcontrol, manage
- 保管するほかんするkeep, have in one's custody
くだkuda · kun'yomi · on its own
- 管くだpipe, tube
Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.
- 菅かんpipe, tube, duct
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)竹 bamboo (meaning) + 官 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 管 (rev. 93591405), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Under the bamboo canopy! This radical brings the practicality and craftsmanship of bamboo to the head of many kanji.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side管 pipe · 竹
vs棺 coffin · 木In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · guǎn
Same form: 管 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 管 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 管 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin guǎn 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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