灌 (guàn): to irrigate, to pour, to install (software)
灌 (guàn) is a Chinese character meaning “to irrigate.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 氵 (semantic) and 雚 (phonetic). It ranks #2043 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 灌 water. Its radical form 氵 (water) appears in many related characters such as 水 (shuǐ, water), 汉 (hàn, Han ethnic group), 汽 (qì, steam).
Definitions
- to irrigate
- to pour
- to install (software)
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 灌输verb | guàn shū | to imbue with |
| 灌醉verb | guàn zuì | to fuddle |
| 灌木丛noun | guàn mù cóng | shrub |
| 灌木noun | guàn mù | bush |
| 灌肠verb | guàn cháng | enema |
| 灌溉verb | guàn gài | to irrigate |
| 灌注verb | guàn zhù | to pour or inject (a liquid or substance) into sth |
| 浇灌verb | jiāo guàn | to water |
| 醍醐灌顶phrase | tí hú guàn dǐng | lit. to anoint your head with the purest cream (idiom) |
| 灌制verb | guàn zhì | to record (songs, albums, CDs etc) |
| 倒灌verb | dào guàn | to flow backwards (of water, because of flood, tide, wind etc) |
| 喷灌noun | pēn guàn | sprinkler irrigation |
| 滴灌noun | dī guàn | to drip irrigate |
| 灌渠noun | guàn qú | irrigation channel |
| 全神灌注 | quán shén guàn zhù | variant of 全神貫注|全神贯注 |
灌 appears in 48 compound words: 60 as the first character, 25 as the last, and 15 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 灌 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (3)
Example Sentences
站在桥上望去，灌水缓缓向东流去。
zhàn zài qiáo shǎng wàng qù , guàn shuǐ huǎn huǎn xiàng dōng liú qù .
Standing on the bridge, one could see the river flowing slowly eastward.
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mò xī gē dú 枭 mì huì qíng fù pù háng zōng duǒ guàn mù cóng bó huǒ zhōng qiāng cǎn sǐ
Mexican drug lord's secret meeting mistress revealed her whereabouts and died tragically after being shot in the bushes
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mì zōng guàn dǐng biàn xìng sāo ! fó dà shuò shēng bèi rén bō qiē kuáng mō xià tǐ : zài . . .
Tantric empowerment transsexuality! Buddha University master was touched by Rinpoche's lower body: in...
MLB/金慧成春训首秀灌3打点!皮肤好到球迷羡慕 搞笑曝护肤祕诀
M L B jīn huì chéng chūn xùn shǒu xiù guàn 3 dǎ diǎn ! pí fū hǎo dào qiú mí xiàn mù gǎo xiào pù hù fū 祕 jué
MLB/Kim Hye-sung made his spring training debut with 3 RBIs! The skin is so good that fans envy it and reveal skin care secrets in a funny way
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jīng diǎn sài wèi 冕 jūn huǒ lì quán kāi ! zuǒ téng huī míng měng dǎ shǎng guàn 5 dǎ diǎn , sēn xià xiáng tài kāi hōng 4 dǎ diǎn rì běn duì shǒu chǎng shí . . .
The defending team is on fire! Teruaki Sato hit 5 RBIs, Shota Morishita hit 4 RBIs The first game of the Japanese team...
仔细搜寻敌人可能藏身的灌木丛。
Zǐxì sōuxún dírén kěnéng cángshēn de guànmùcóng.
Investigate thoroughly the bushes where the enemy may be hiding.
你见过灌肠的做法吗？
Nǐ jiànguo guàncháng de zuòfǎ ma?
Have you ever seen sausage being made?
他把瓶子灌满了水。
Tā bǎ píngzi guàn mǎn le shuǐ.
He filled the bottle with water.
酒是灌入瓶中的诗。
Jiǔ shì guàn rù píng zhōng de shī.
Wine is bottled poetry.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 氵 (water) component
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