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
- N2乾燥Populardryness; aridity; drying (e.g. clothes); dehydration; desiccation; insipidity
- N2乾杯Popularcheers; bottoms-up; prosit; toast; drink (in honor or celebration of someone or something); drinking one's glass dry
- N2乾電池Populardry cell battery
- —乾物Populardry provisions; dried food; dried goods; groceries
- —乾季Populardry season
- —乾期Populardry season
- —乾果dry fruit (e.g. nuts, legumes, follicles); dried fruit
- —乾舷freeboard
- —乾固drying and hardening
- —乾枯completely drying up
- —乾菜dried vegetables
- —乾材dry lumber
- —乾湿degree of humidity
- —乾食dry rot; dry corrosion
- —乾性dry; dryness; dry (pleurisy)
- —乾田dry paddy field
- —乾皮dried hides
- —乾酪cheese
- —乾裂cracks in drying lumber
- —乾癬psoriasis