灌
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to irrigate; to pour; to install (software); to record (music)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 20
- Radical
- 水 +18
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 灌
- Common rank
- #1,480
- Unicode
- U+704C
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Formation & memory
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How 灌 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 meaning “water” + 雚 sound ()
Components 氵 雚
How to remember it
pour into · Heisig RSH #2882
水 water + stork
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 灌
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 海水倒灌 | saltwater intrusion | |
| 灌南县 | Guannan, a county in Lianyungang City 連雲港市|连云港市[Lian2 yun2 gang3 Shi4], Jiangsu | |
| 灌阳县 | Guanyang, a county in Guilin City 桂林市[Gui4 lin2 Shi4], Guangxi | |
| 灌木林 | shrubbery; low wood | |
| 灌云县 | Guanyun, a county in Lianyungang City 連雲港市|连云港市[Lian2 yun2 gang3 Shi4], Jiangsu | |
| 红灌木茶 | rooibos tea | |
| 如雷灌耳 | variant of 如雷貫耳|如雷贯耳[ru2 lei2 guan4 er3] | |
| 全神灌注 | variant of 全神貫注|全神贯注[quan2 shen2 guan4 zhu4] | |
| 灌区 | area under irrigation | |
| 电灌站 | electric pumping station in irrigation system | |
| 灌水 | to irrigate; to pour water into; to inject water into meat to increase its weight (plumpin… | |
| 灌南 | see 灌南縣|灌南县[Guan4 nan2 Xian4] | |
| 灌阳 | see 灌陽縣|灌阳县[Guan4 yang2 Xian4] | |
| 满堂灌 | cramming (as a teaching method); rote learning | |
| 灌木 | bush; shrub | |
| 灌制 | to record (songs, albums, CDs etc); to cast (plaster, metal etc) into a mold | |
| 灌米汤 | to flatter; to butter sb up | |
| 灌酒 | to force sb to drink alcohol | |
| 灌云 | see 灌雲縣|灌云县[Guan4 yun2 Xian4] | |
| 倒灌 | to flow backwards (of water, because of flood, tide, wind etc); reverse flow; to back up (… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 雚 — compare how they read.