Kanji
灌
kanji character
pour
灌 kanji-灌 pour
灌
Meaning
pour
Readings
Kun'yomi
- そそぐ
On'yomi
- かん がい irrigation
- かん ちょう enema
- かん すい sprinkling (water)
Practice Writing
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Component Analysis
Common Words
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灌 ぐto pour (into), to sprinkle on (from above), to water (e.g. plants)... -
灌 漑 irrigation -
灌 腸 enema -
灌 水 sprinkling (water), watering (plants) -
灌 木 bush, shrub -
灌 流 perfusion -
灌 頂 baptism-like ceremony performed by the buddhas on a bodhisattva who attains buddhahood, baptism-like ceremony for conferring onto someone precepts, a mystic teaching... -
湯 灌 washing a corpse for burial -
灌 仏 会 service celebrating the birth of the Buddha (held on April 8), Buddha's birthday festival -
灌 流 圧 perfusion pressure -
灌 漑 用 水 irrigation water -
灌 漑 農 業 irrigation farming -
伝 法 灌 頂 consecration ritual for the conferral of the status of Acharya (in esoteric Buddhism)