Kanji List

乾

• kun: かわ.く, かわ.かす, ほ.す, ひ.る, いぬい
• on: カン, ケン
• meaning: drought, dry, dessicate, drink up, heaven, emperor
• words:

  Word	Reading	Meaning
  乾燥	かんそう	dry, arid, insipid, dehydrated
  乾電池	かんでんち	dry cell, battery
  乾杯	かんぱい	toast, drink (in celebration or in honor of something); drinking one's glass dry; cheers
  乾期	かんき	dry season
  乾燥機	かんそうき	drying machine, dryer, desiccator
  乾かす	かわかす	to dry (clothes, etc.), to desiccate
  乾き	かわき	drying, dryness
  乾物	ほしもの	things dried in the sun, esp. clothes, died cloth, etc.
  乾	ほし	drying, dried
  乾	けん	qian (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: heaven, northwest)