乾 — drought, dry, dessicate

かわく乾 drought

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 11 strokes weather

U+4E7E Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1453 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #502 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

drought
dry
dessicate
drink up
heaven
emperor

word

かわ kawa Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

乾(かわ) く kawaku to dry

かん kan On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

乾(かん) 燥(そう) kansou dryness 乾(かん) 杯(ぱい) kanpai cheers

Appears in idioms

無味乾燥四字熟語

nothingness, flavor, drought, parch

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

𠦝 sunrise

こう乞 beg

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#5 乙 second