The kanji 管: meaning, readings and stroke order

管

Meaning: pipe, manage
On reading: カン kan
Kun reading: くだ kuda
Strokes: 14
Radical: 竹 bamboo
Level: Level 4 · grade 4

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: cái ống, quản lý (quản)
Japanese: くだ。とりしまる。
Korean: 관, 관리하다 (관)
Chinese: 管子、管理

Readings, words and example sentences

カン kan · on reading

水すい道どう管かん
water pipe
さむい朝に 水すい道どう管かんがこおりました。
On a cold morning, the water pipes froze.

くだ kuda · kun reading · less common

管くだ
tube, pipe
細い 管くだを通って水が流れます。
Water flows through a thin tube.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.