Keyword
dry
Info
FrequencyTop 1200-1300
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel 4
Heisig502
Readings
かわ
(50%)
かん
(36%)
けん
(7%)
(1%)
Composed of
ten
early
beg
Mnemonic

You are ten minutes too early for your appointment, and it's raining outside. Only ten minutes left, so what do you do? Do you want to keep dry? If so then you'll have to beg the right people to let you in early.

Used in vocabulary (205 in total)
to get dry
cheers; bottoms-up; toast; drink (in celebration or in honor of something); drinking one's glass dry
dryness; aridity; drying (e.g. clothes); insipidity
Examples (33 in total)
Dry sand absorbs water.
My mouth was dry.
The clothes aren't dry.