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
- —乾燥肌dry skin
- —乾漆造dry lacquer technique; kanshitsu; technique for making objects (vessels, sculptures, statues, etc.) from many layers of hemp cloth soaked with lacquer
- —乾燥肉dried meat; jerky
- —乾屎橛something worthless; something impure; something unimportant; dried excrement in the shape of a stick
- —乾皮症xeroderma; xerodermia; xerosis; dry skin
- —乾燥症xerosis
- —乾草堆hay stack
- —乾生植物xerophyte
- —乾燥牛乳powdered milk
- —乾燥洗濯dry cleaning
- —乾燥腐朽dry rot
- —乾燥無味dryness; dullness
- —乾燥野菜dehydrated vegetables
- —乾地農法dry farming
- —無味乾燥dull; uninteresting; dry; insipid; boring; prosaic
- —乾布摩擦rubdown with a dry towel
- —不乾性油non-drying oil
- —乾燥地帯arid region
- —乾ドックdry dock
- —乾式工法dry construction