Kanji N2

管: pipe, tube, wind instrument

管 is a JLPT N2 kanji meaning pipe, tube, wind instrument, written with 14 strokes. It is read カン (on) and くだ (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 4. You will see it in 管理 (かんり, control) and 管 (くだ, pipe).

管

Meanings

  • pipe
  • tube
  • wind instrument
  • drunken talk
  • control
  • jurisdiction
Strokes14
JLPT levelN2
School gradeGrade 4
Frequency#517 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • カン

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • くだ

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

Watch the stroke order

Every stroke in order, the live one in vermilion. Replay as often as you like.

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Now draw it

Trace each stroke in order. Wrong direction or wrong order gets flagged right away.

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Your turn: draw stroke 1 of 14. Start at the dot.

Common words with 管

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 管理かんり

    control; management (e.g. of a business)

    JLPT N3
  • 管くだ

    pipe; tube

    JLPT N3
  • 血管けっかん

    blood vessel; vein

    JLPT N1
  • 保管ほかん

    charge; custody; safekeeping; deposit; storage

    JLPT N1
  • 管内かんない

    within the jurisdiction (of); one's jurisdiction

  • 管制かんせい

    control (by the state); controlling

  • 所管しょかん

    jurisdiction

  • 管理職かんりしょく

    management; managerial position

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0; the Spanish meanings they lack, translated by Naraio from their English, are shared under the same licence. Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY. Sentences split into words with IPADIC © NAIST and IPA, through Lindera.