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Kanji Information Sheet for 管 ( 
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| English: pipe tube wind instrument drunken talk | On-Yomi: カン | Kun-Yomi: くだ すが |
Bushu (Radical) Info: 竹 (たけ) – bamboo
Henshall Mnemonic: bamboo pipe under control
Levels: JLPT N2 | JLPT 2 (old) | Grade 4
Frequency: #517 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Frequency: #517 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:
Click any individual kanji to view a similar information sheet for it.Click [K] to look up the word's individual character(s) at WWWJDIC.
Click [D] to look up the word at WWWJDIC (definition is the same but other useful features exist).
Click [Jisho] to look up the word at Jisho.org.
JLPT N3 Words
- 管 [くだ]
(n,n-suf) pipe; tube [K] [D] [Jisho] - 管理 [かんり]
(n,vs) control; management (e.g. of a business) [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N1 Words
- 管 [かん]
(n,n-suf) pipe; tube [K] [D] [Jisho] - 血管 [けっかん]
(n) blood vessel [K] [D] [Jisho] - 保管 [ほかん]
(n,vs) charge; custody; safekeeping; deposit; storage [K] [D] [Jisho]
Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT
- 只管 [ひたすら]
(adj-na,adv) (uk) nothing but; earnestly; intently [K] [D] [Jisho] - 配管 [はいかん]
(n,vs) plumbing; piping [K] [D] [Jisho] - 管轄 [かんかつ]
(n) jurisdiction; control [K] [D] [Jisho] - 管区 [かんく]
(n) jurisdiction [K] [D] [Jisho] - 管区気象台 [かんくきしょうだい]
district meteorological observatory [K] [D] [Jisho] - 管弦楽 [かんげんがく]
(n) orchestral music [K] [D] [Jisho] - 管弦楽団 [かんげんがくだん]
orchestra [K] [D] [Jisho] - 管財 [かんざい]
(n) administration of property; custodianship; receivership [K] [D] [Jisho] - 管制 [かんせい]
(n) control [K] [D] [Jisho] - 管制官 [かんせいかん]
(n) controller (usually air-traffic) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 管制塔 [かんせいとう]
(n) control tower [K] [D] [Jisho] - 管長 [かんちょう]
(n) superintendent priest; chief abbot [K] [D] [Jisho] - 管内 [かんない]
(n) within the jurisdiction of [K] [D] [Jisho] - 管理職 [かんりしょく]
(n) management [K] [D] [Jisho] - 移管 [いかん]
(n) transfer of control [K] [D] [Jisho] - 入国管理局 [にゅうこくかんりきょく]
immigration office [K] [D] [Jisho] - 卵管 [らんかん]
(n) fallopian tube; oviduct [K] [D] [Jisho] - ブラウン管 [ブラウンかん]
(n) cathode-ray tube (CRT) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 主管 [しゅかん]
(n) supervision; management; supervisor; manager [K] [D] [Jisho] - 所管 [しょかん]
(n,vs) jurisdiction [K] [D] [Jisho] - 気管 [きかん]
(n) trachea [K] [D] [Jisho] - 気管支 [きかんし]
(n) bronchial tube [K] [D] [Jisho] - 食管法 [しょっかんほう]
(n) law governing food quality [K] [D] [Jisho]
Acknowledgments
The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.
The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.
Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.
The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.
If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.