乾く

• 読み: かわく
• ローマ字: kawaku
• 漢字の分解: 乾 (kan/kawa) — dry, parch
• 発音: /ka.wa.kɯ/

意味

To get dry; to dry out. Describes the process of moisture evaporating from something.

A Group 1 (godan) verb conjugated with the く row. Intransitive — the thing dries on its own. The transitive pair is 乾かす (kawakasu, to dry something). Commonly used for laundry, paint, throats (喉が乾く), and weather-related drying.

例文

1. 洗濯物がまだ乾いていない。
2. 喉が乾いたから水を飲みたい。
3. 今日は天気がいいから早く乾くよ。

使い方ガイド

場面: laundry, weather, daily life

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

The kanji 乾 originally meant 'heaven' or 'dry' in Chinese cosmology (one of the eight trigrams). In Japanese it specialized to mean dry or to dry.

文化的背景

時代: Classical

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal