乾
乾 — geon, gan
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 하늘/마를 건, 마를 간
- Romanization
- geon, gan
- English
- dry; warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male); trigram ☰; hexagram ䷀
- Mandarin
- qián
- Japanese on'yomi
- カン, ケン, ゲン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- かわ.く かわ.かす ほ.す ひ.る いぬい
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,453 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 乙 (5, 10 residual)
- Unicode
- U+4E7E
How 乾 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 乾 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 倝, 乙.
Korean example words with 乾
- 건열乾熱 Korean gloss: 건조한 열
- 반건半乾 Korean gloss: 반쯤 말림
- 건작乾作 Korean gloss: 말려서 만듦
- 자건煮乾 Korean gloss: 삶아서 말림
- 건순乾脣 Korean gloss: 위로 들린 입술
- 건채乾菜 Korean gloss: 말린 채소나 나물
- 염건鹽乾 Korean gloss: 소금에 절여 말림
- 건계乾季 Korean gloss: 기후가 건조한 시기
- 건기乾期 Korean gloss: 기후가 건조한 시기
- 건포乾布 Korean gloss: 마른 헝겊이나 수건
- 구건口乾 Korean gloss: 입 안이 건조해지는 증상
- 건재乾材 Korean gloss: 조제하지 않은 그대로의 약재
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 乾
- 乾燥かんそう dryness; aridity; drying (e.g. clothes)
- 乾電池かんでんち dry cell battery
- 乾杯かんぱい cheers; bottoms-up; prosit
- 乾燥機かんそうき drying machine; dryer; desiccator
- 乾物かんぶつ dry provisions; dried food; dried goods
- 乾かすかわかす to dry (clothes, etc.); to desiccate
- 乾きかわき drying; dryness
- 乾パンかんパン cracker; hard biscuit; hardtack
- 乾くかわく to get dry
- 乾季かんき dry season
- 乾けん qian (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: heaven, northwest)
- 乾果かんか dry fruit (e.g. nuts, legumes, follicles); dried fruit
Other hanja read “건”
Other hanja with radical 乙
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences