Kanji1 / 11
乾 kanji
drought, dry, desiccate, drink up, heaven, emperor
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
カンケン
Kun readings
かわくかわかすほすひるいぬい
Variant forms
乹Words with 乾
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —乾芻hay
- —乾板dry plate
- —乾瓢strips of dried gourd
- —乾溜dry distillation
- —乾式dry (method); dry-type; without using water
- —乾布dry towel
- —乾麺dried noodles
- —乾球dry-bulb
- —速乾drying quickly
- —乾場place to dry seaweed
- —乾雪dry snow
- —乾薑dried ginger
- —乾漆dried lacquer; dry lacquer (technique); kanshitsu; technique for making objects (vessels, sculptures, statues, etc.) from many layers of hemp cloth soaked with lacquer
- —乾眠anhydrobiosis; cryptobiosis; drought dormancy
- —乾魚dried fish; stockfish
- —瞬乾instant drying
- —乾草hay; dry grass
- —乾パンcracker; hard biscuit; hardtack
- —乾湿計humidity meter
- —乾漆像dry lacquer statue; statue made from many layers of hemp cloth soaked with lacquer