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管 = 官 + 竹

管 is a Japanese kanji written with 14 strokes, listed here under the keyword “pipe”. It is built from 官 (bureaucrat) and 竹 (bamboo). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 1365.

Keyword
pipe
RTK frame
1365
Strokes
14
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
カン
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
くだ
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
труба
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
管 pipe

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 官 bureaucrat
  2. 竹 bamboo

How to find 管 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “bureaucrat” + “bamboo”. 管 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

Open 管 in the interactive kanji search to expand every part down to its smallest pieces, add your own names and mnemonic stories, or search for other characters by their parts.