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灌 kanji
pour
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カン
Kun readings
そそぐ
Variant forms
潅Words with 灌
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —灌漑Popularirrigation
- —灌木bush; shrub
- —湯灌washing a corpse for burial
- —灌流perfusion
- —灌頂baptism-like ceremony performed by the buddhas on a bodhisattva who attains buddhahood; baptism-like ceremony for conferring onto someone precepts, a mystic teaching, etc. (in esoteric Buddhism); pouring water onto a gravestone; teaching esoteric techniques, compositions, etc. (in Japanese poetry or music)
- —灌注irrigation; lavage; affusion; douche; supplying (water); irrigation; pouring (into); watering
- —灌仏会service celebrating the birth of the Buddha (held on April 8); Buddha's birthday festival
- —灌流圧perfusion pressure
- —灌漑用水irrigation water
- —伝法灌頂consecration ritual for the conferral of the status of Acharya (in esoteric Buddhism)
- —灌漑農業irrigation farming
- —灌腸enema
- —灌水sprinkling (water); watering (plants)