管

Meaning

管 centers on a hollow cylinder that channels or directs something: a pipe or tube, a wind instrument, and by extension the idea of controlling or having jurisdiction over a flow. The 'drunken talk' sense is a rare, figurative application of uncontrolled speech flowing out.

• 管理かんり
  N3

  control; management (e.g. of a business)

• 管かん
  N3

  pipe; tube

• 保管ほかん
  N1

  charge; custody; safekeeping; deposit; storage

• 管くだ
  N3

  pipe; tube

• 血管けっかん
  N2

  blood vessel; vein

• 管轄かんかつ
  N1

  jurisdiction; control

• 管制かんせい

  control (by the state); controlling; coordination

• 配管はいかん

  plumbing; piping

• 管弦楽かんげんがく

  orchestral music

• 管内かんない

  within the jurisdiction (of); one's jurisdiction

• 管区かんく

  jurisdiction

• 所管しょかん

  jurisdiction

• 移管いかん

  transfer of control

• 気管きかん

  trachea; windpipe

• ブラウン管ブラウンかん

  cathode-ray tube; CRT; Braun tube

• 気管支きかんし

  bronchus; bronchial tube

• 管財かんざい

  administration of property; custodianship; receivership

• 管制塔かんせいとう

  control tower

• 主管しゅかん

  supervision; management; supervisor; manager

• 管長かんちょう

  superintendent priest; chief abbot

• 管理職かんりしょく
  N2

  management; managerial position; administrative post; person in a managerial position

• 食管法しょっかんほう

  law governing food quality

• 入国管理局にゅうこくかんりきょく

  Immigration Bureau; Immigration Office

• 管区気象台かんくきしょうだい

  district meteorological observatory

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