Pre-Level 1

Meaning

Kanji 灌

pour

pour

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Readings

Kunyomi 訓読み
そそ.ぐ
Onyomi 音読み
カン
Nanori 名乗り
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Kanji Kentei
Pre-Level 1
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Showing 13 common entries

Showing 13 of 13 entries that include this kanji.

注ぐ

そそぐ

to pour (into)

灌漑

かんがい

irrigation

潅水

かんすい

sprinkling (water)

浣腸

かんちょう

(giving an) enema

灌頂

かんじょう

baptism-like ceremony for conferring onto someone precepts, a mystic teaching, etc. (in esoteric Buddhism)

灌仏会

かんぶつえ

service celebrating the birth of the Buddha (held on April 8)

灌木

かんぼく

bush

灌流

かんりゅう

perfusion

灌流圧

かんりゅうあつ

perfusion pressure

灌漑農業

かんがいのうぎょう

irrigation farming

灌漑用水

かんがいようすい

irrigation water

湯灌

ゆかん

washing a corpse for burial

Example sentences

5 reference sentences

花壇に水をぐ。

I pour water onto the flower bed.

彼は苗に静かに水をいだ。

He gently poured water onto the seedlings.

乾いた土に水をぐと、すぐにしみこんだ。

When water was poured onto the dry soil, it soaked in at once.

農家は朝早く畑を水した。

The farmer irrigated the field early in the morning.

庭の芝生に毎晩自動で水している。

The lawn in the yard is watered automatically every night.