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kans

kans is the plural of kan.

Meaning of kan

Noun (1)

kan (plural 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 […]2000, Hideo Yamashita, Healthy Culture and Unhealthy Culture

Noun (2)

kan (plural kans)

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

Noun (3)

kan (plural kans)

  1. (Japanese) A set of four identical tiles.
  2. (Japanese) A call declaring the formation of such a set.
    Synonyms:
    kong

See all 8 meanings of kan

Proper noun capitalized: Kans

Kans

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Kansas.

Questions about kans

What is kans the plural of?
Kans is the plural of kan.
What part of speech is kans?
Kans is a proper noun.

Words near kans in the dictionary

  1. Kanred
  2. kanreki
  3. kanrinin
  4. Kanroji
  5. Kanrojis
  6. kans
  7. kans grass
  8. Kans.
  9. Kansa
  10. Kansai
  11. Kansai dialect

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kans (page history and authors); Kans (page history and authors); kan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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