かんかん

①［太陽が照り付ける］

¶外は～照りだ

It's scorching outside.

¶砂漠で～に照りつけられる

get broiled in the desert.

②［激しく怒った］

◇→かんかんに怒る

◇→かんかんに怒って

看貫
weighing
platform scales

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かんかん

①［太陽が照り付ける］

¶外は～照りだ

It's scorching outside.

¶砂漠で～に照りつけられる

get broiled in the desert.

②［激しく怒った］

◇ → かんかんに怒る

◇ → かんかんに怒って

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I

かんかん【閑々】

〔のんびりしていること〕 ⇒ゆうゆう 1.

II

かんかん【寛緩･緩々】

an air of perfect composure.

III

かんかん【感官】

＝感覚器官 (⇒かんかく)².

IV

かんかん【漢奸】

〔中国の〕 a traitor.

V

かんかん

1 〔連続する高い金属音〕 (a) clanging; a clanging noise.

●(踏切の警報機が)かんかん鳴る clang; start clanging.

●傘の先で鉄柵をかんかん鳴らしながら歩いた. She walked along, dragging the point of her umbrella along the iron railings.

2 〔熱が強烈なさま〕

●かんかん(に)おこった炭火 red-hot charcoal.

●かんかん日が照っていた. The sun burned [glared, shone fiercely] down. | The glare of the sun was fierce. | The (heat of the) sun was fierce. | There was a burning sun. | It was a burning [baking] hot day. | 《口》 It was as hot as an oven [hell].

3 〔激怒するさま〕

●かんかんになって怒る get [grow] extremely angry; become furious [enraged]; fly into a rage [passion]; boil with rage [anger]; flare up; 《米》 《口》 get boiling mad; 《口》 hit the ceiling [roof]; blow one's top

・かんかんに怒らせる make sb extremely angry [(absolutely) furious]; send sb into a rage; make sb mad with anger; put sb into a rage.

●父はかんかんだった. My father was extremely angry [absolutely furious]. | My father was in a (burning) rage.

かんかん照り blazing [fierce] heat; the fierce glare of the sun.

VI

かんかん(ばかり)【看貫(秤)】

〔台秤〕 a platform scale; 〔車体ぐるみの〕 a weighbridge.