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缶 means 'can'

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Strokes : 6    Radical number: 121    Frequency: 1856   JLPT: N2    Usefulness: 4    Study set: 4-21    Grade: 8   Intermediate lesson: 54    Beginner lesson: -   Begins 13 words   Used in 36 words   Used in 7 names   Component in 53 kanji (4 Jōyō)
Jōyō (常用)
Common readings
On
   カン
Additional readings
Kun    かま tin can, container, jar radical (no. 121)
Name    ふ   べ
Variants
⽸   罐   𦈢  
Notes
A Joy o' Kanji essay is available for 缶 - click the badge to download
The yomi most often used for 缶 is KAN. How perfect is that for a kanji that means 'can'?! That isn't entirely a rhetorical question. Really, why is the yomi such a perfect match for the English word? This seemingly straightforward question has anything but a straightforward answer. Find out about this, as well as ways to speak about canned food, canned beverages, and "canned" people (which is not to say that they've been fired or that they're trite!). Learn about 缶 as a radical, too!
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The essay is also included in the following Thematic Bundles
05
Holding Space: Containers and Lids
缶 鉢 瓶 蓋
As all four kanji represent containers or lids, the essays abound in canning and bottling goods, whether jam or tuna, beer or shochu. Food preparation takes center stage, from grinding spices and kneading dough to cooking mushrooms in a teapot. Things heat up with hibachis, kettles, steam boilers, and the "cauldron of hell"! More unexpectedly, Buddhism keeps popping up, what with ritual vessels and mendicant priests who carry begging bowls. Body parts serve as metaphorical lids and pots. And with more figurative leaps we touch on opening the lid of one's mind and bottling youth.
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See essay 1095 on 缶 (tin (can); 'jar' radical) to find out about a shape that serves as a component in both 陶 (pottery) and 鬱 (depression). You can see the 缶 in 鬱, can't you?!
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In the most useful 10,000 words in Japanese, 缶 is used 2 times, read 1 way.
Across all words in Japanese, 缶 is used 32 times, read 2 ways.
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カン : 31 words FIND ALL
か ん づ め 3 か ん づ め 4 か ん づ め 0
Most common form: 缶詰め
1. canned goods; canning; packing (in cans); tin can
noun
2. confining someone (e.g. so they can concentrate on work)
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かま : 1 word FIND ALL
noun
boiler
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An additional 4 less common words include 缶 but the reading has not yet been categorized.
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Additional data
Henshall: 1095  Joy o' Kanji : 1095  Key to Kanji: - 

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カン    can   
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