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渇 kanji
thirst, dry up, parch
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
カツ
Kun readings
かわく
Variant forms
渴Words with 渇
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —渇水Popularwater shortage
- —渇望Popularcraving; longing; thirsting
- —枯渇Populardrying up; running dry; running out; being exhausted; being drained
- —渇thirst
- —飢渇hunger and thirst; starvation
- —渇死dying of thirst
- —渇仰adoration; reverence; esteem
- —渇すto be thirsty; to be dry
- —口渇thirst; dry mouth; -dipsia
- —渇愛thirst; craving; desire
- —止渇moistening a dry mouth or throat (to relieve thirst)
- —渇筆drybrush; brush which gives a blurred effect in writing or painting
- —消渇diabetes (in traditional Chinese medicine); gonorrhea (in women)
- —渇望者desiring person; luster
- —渇水期dry season
- —渇するto be thirsty; to be dry
- —飢渇丸starch-based portable ration pill used by ninja and soldiers
- —随喜渇仰worship with adoration; ardent admiration
- —渇を癒やすto quench one's thirst
- —渇に臨みて井を穿つto fail to make timely preparations; to not dig a well until one is thirsty