ほし
カン, ほ.す, ほ.し-, -ぼ.し, ひ.る
dry, parch

This kanji is also known as the "dry" radical (はす), which has 3 strokes.

Sample compounds (15) :


  1. ほす
    (vt) to air, to dry, to desiccate, to drain (off), to drink up

  2. かんてん
    drought, dry weather

  3. かりほす
    to cut and dry (in the sun)

  4. ひぼし
    starving
  5. める
    ほしかためる
    (vt) to dry until stiff

  6. かんがい
    drought disaster

  7. かんたく
    land reclamation (from sea)

  8. うめぼし
    dried plum

  9. らんかん
    handrail, bannister

  10. かんしょう
    (vs) interference, intervention

  11. かんまん
    ebb & flow

  12. にぼし
    small crunchy dried sardines

  13. ものほし
    clothes drying place

  14. のみほす
    to drink up, to drain (cup)

  15. ひうお
    dried fish
Kanji Character : 干
Kuten Encoding : 2019
SJIS Encoding : 3433
Unicode Encoding : 5e72
Old Nelson Index : 1492
Radical Number : 51
Frequency Ranking : 1132
Gakken Index : 1179
Grade Level : 6
Halpern Index : 3379
Heisig Index : 1648
Henshall Index : 825
New Nelson Index : 1589
O'Neil Index : 26
Stroke Count : 3
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji Dictionary Index : 2k1.1
Spahn & Hadamitzky Radical Strokes : 2
Spahn & Hadamitzky Other Strokes : 1
Spahn & Hadamitzky Character ID : k
Spahn & Hadamitzky kanji Number : 1
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji & Kana Index : 584
SKIP Code : 4-3-1
De Roo Code : 3155
Four Corner Code : 1040.0
Korean reading : gang
Pinyin reading : gan4
Morohashi Index String : 9165
Morohashi Volume and Page String : 4.0482
Morohashi Index Number : 9165
Morohashi Page : 482
Morohashi Volume : 4
Dictionary Codes
  1. R3155
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