Meaning of かん in Japanese

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Definition of かん

  1. (n) perception; intuition; the sixth sense
  1. (n) can; tin
  1. (n, n-suf) warship
  1. (n, n-suf) look; appearance
  2. spectacle; sight
  3. (Buddh) observation meditation
  4. (n-suf) outlook on ...; view of ...

    これがアメリカ人から見た日本観です。
    This is Japan as Americans see it.

かんむり(kanmuri) · かん(kan) · かむり(kamuri) · かんぶり(kanburi)

冠 Kanji Details

  1. (n) cap (esp. a traditional cap worn with sokutai or ikan clothing); crown; diadem; coronet →Related words: 衣冠 , 束帯
  2. top kanji radical
  3. first verse of a haikai, etc. →Related words: 俳諧
  4. (adj-t, adv-to) best; peerless; first
みき(miki) · かん(kan)

幹 Kanji Details

  1. (n) (tree) trunk; (arrow) shaft; (tool) handle; backbone; base
かん(kan) · くだ(kuda)

管 Kanji Details

  1. (n, n-suf) pipe; tube

    管から水が吹き出した。
    Water shot from the pipe.

  1. (n, suf) house; hall; building
  1. (n) midwinter; cold season; coldest days of the year
  1. (n, ctr) volume (of book); reel (of film)
  1. (n) feeling; sensation; emotion; admiration; impression
かん(kan) · ひつぎ(hitsugi) ·

棺柩 Kanji Details

  1. (n) coffin; casket
  1. (n) kan (obs. unit of weight, approx. 3.75 kg, 8.3 lb)
  2. kan (obs. unit of currency)
  3. (ctr) pieces of sushi
  1. (n) temper; nerves

    トムの話し方は私の癇にさわる。
    Tom's way of speaking gets on my nerves.

  1. (n) government service; the bureaucracy
  1. (n) China
  2. Han (majority Chinese ethnic group)
  3. (n-suf) man →Related words: 硬骨漢
  1. (n) The End (book, film, etc.); Finis
  1. (n, suf) interval; period of time
  2. among; between; inter-
  1. (n) joy; enjoyment; delight; pleasure
  1. (n) brevity; simplicity
  1. (n) ring; link
  2. open spirals of heavy metal wire twisted into a kettle and used to lift it (tea ceremony)
かん(kan) · くわん(kuwan)
  1. (adv, adv-to) ding; chime (sound of a bell or a small gong)
  1. (num) sextillion; 10^36
  1. (n) pit; hole
  2. kan (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: water, north)
  1. (n) ring; band
  2. (math) ring
  1. (n) treble range (in Japanese music); high note
かみ(kami) · かん(kan) · こう(kou) 長官

長官 Kanji Details

  1. (n, adj-no) director (highest of the four administrative positions of the ritsuryo period); chief →Related words: 四等官
  1. (n) culm (hollow stem of a grass)
  1. (n) khan (medieval ruler of a Tatary tribe) →Related words: ハン
  1. (n, adj-na) cunning and wickedness; cunning, wicked person
  1. (n, adj-na) lenient; gentle
  1. (n) warming up sake; warmed sake
  1. (suf, ctr) counter for poles, rods, etc.
  1. (n) spare time; free time; leisure
  1. (n) (in Chinese medicine) infantile neurosis characterized by crying at night and convulsions
  2. temper; nerves →Related words:
  1. (suf) publication; edition (e.g. morning, evening, special); published in (year); publication frequency (e.g. daily, monthly)

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