to irrigate / to pour / to install (software) / to record (music)

= + : Gitta Giraffe (gu) finds that the anthill's bathroom (an4) is infected with herons (雚), so she uses water bottles (氵) to pour (灌) water over them to make them fly away.

灌 character breakdown

"water" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 85), occurring in 沒|没[mei2], 法[fa3], 流[liu2] etc / see also 三點水|三点水[san1 dian3 shui3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a bottle of water. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) enjoys a bottle of water (氵) in the Eiffel Tower's living room (ei3). The got the water by scratching (㇀) a blossom (⺀) and catching the leaking dew in a bottle.
(archaic) stork / heron

= + + : The heron (雚) and the sparrow (隹) made a very copy nest for their offspring in the anthill's bathroom (an4). They build a base out of artificial lawn (艹) and decorated it with some mandarins (口) to feed their babies. Their nest is so high that only Gitta Giraffe (gu) can have a look inside because she is so tall.
variant of 萑[huan2]

Characters with 灌 as component

灌 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 灌

to flow backwards (of water, because of flood, tide, wind etc) / reverse flow / to back up (sewage)
drip irrigation / to irrigate by drip feed
spring irrigation
to irrigate / to wash with water
to warp (fertilize land by flooding)
basin irrigation (e.g. paddy fields)
variant of 全神貫注|全神贯注[quan2 shen2 guan4 zhu4]

Sentences with 灌

灌 currently does not appear in any sentence.