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kan¹

  • /kɑːn/

Sounds like khan, carn (non-rhotic), con (father–bother merger) · Rhymes with -ɑːn

noun kans

  1. archaic Archaic form of khan

kan²

  • /kɑːn/

Sounds like khan, carn (non-rhotic), con (father–bother merger) · Rhymes with -ɑːn

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Japanese 貫 (kan).

noun kan

  1. A Japanese unit of weight, approximately 3.75 kg or 8.267 lb. After having subtracted the bad and uncollectable debt above, the net property was around 32000 kan of silver […]

kan³

  • /kɑːn/

Sounds like khan, carn (non-rhotic), con (father–bother merger) · Rhymes with -ɑːn

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Cantonese 斤 (gan¹).

noun kans

  1. Hong Kong A catty, legally defined as 0.60478982 kilograms.

kan⁴

  • /kɑːn/

Sounds like khan, carn (non-rhotic), con (father–bother merger) · Rhymes with -ɑːn

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Japanese 槓 (kan).

noun kans

  1. Japanese A set of four identical tiles.

    Similar: kong, quad, four-of-a-kind

  2. Japanese A call declaring the formation of such a set.

    Similar: kong

Kan⁵

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Japanese 菅 (Kan) or かん (Kan).

proper noun Kans

  1. A unisex given name from Japanese.
  2. A surname of multiple origins.

KAN⁶

proper noun

  1. The station code of Khana Junction railway station in India.
  2. The station code of Kananook railway station in Australia.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: pu, logistics, crewman, coombe, summary, suffix, roots, able, was, ying, can, may, might, gan, will, pvd

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name a Japanese surname

日本語菅 Kan
中文菅 Jiān
हिन्दीकान kān
ΕλληνικάΚαν Kan
РусскийКан Kan
العربيةكَان kān
עבריתקאן

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@misc{kan_2026,
  title = {kan},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/kan},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}