JLPT N2 · 11 strokes
Kanji 乾: "drought, dry, desiccate"
The kanji 乾 means "drought, dry, desiccate, drink up, heaven, emperor". It is written with 11 strokes and belongs to JLPT level N2, read カン, ケン in on'yomi and かわ.く, かわ.かす, ほ.す, ひ.る, いぬい in kun'yomi.
Stroke order
Strokes are written in the order of the numbers. The order is not decorative: it is what gives the character its balance, and it is also how handwriting search works in Japanese dictionaries.
Readings
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
カンケン
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
かわ.くかわ.かすほ.すひ.るいぬい
In a kun'yomi reading, the dot separates the kanji from its okurigana: かた.る is read かたる and written 語る. A hyphen marks a bound position, like -び in 日.
At a glance
| Meaning | drought, dry, desiccate, drink up, heaven, emperor |
|---|---|
| Strokes | 11 |
| JLPT level | N2 |
| Taught in Japan | secondary school |
| Frequency rank | 1453 of 2,501 |
Common words with 乾
The most frequent words using this kanji, most common first, with furigana readings. Click one to open it in the reader.
- 乾くto get dry
- 乾杯cheers; bottoms-up; prosit · toast; drink (in honor or celebration of someone or something)
- 乾燥dryness; aridity; drying (e.g. clothes); dehydration · insipidity
- 乾かすto dry (clothes, etc.); to desiccate
- 乾qian (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: heaven, northwest)
- 乾ききるto become completely dry; to dry out; to dry up; to parch
- 乾きdrying; dryness
- 無味乾燥dull; uninteresting; dry; insipid
- 乾燥機drying machine; dryer; desiccator
- 乾坤一擲stake all (on something); play for all or nothing; throwing all into a task
- 乾パンcracker; hard biscuit; hardtack
- 乾電池dry cell battery
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