管: to manage; pipe

管 guān

verb
: to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about
: tube; pipe; woodwind
: (coll.) to; towards

管 | くだ kuda

noun
: pipe; tube

管理guan3li3: to supervise; to manage; to administer
[かんり kanri: control; management]

管道guan3dao4: tubing; pipeline; channel; means

管子guan3zi: tube; pipe; drinking straw

管制guan3zhi4: control; supervision
[かんせい kansei: control]

儘[尽]管jin3’guan3: despite; although; even though; in spite of; unhesitatingly; do not hesitate (to ask, complain); (go ahead and do it) without hesitating

不管bu4guan3: no matter (what, how); regardless of; no matter

血管xue4guan3: vein; artery [けっかん kekkan: blood vessel]

保管bao3guan3: to assure; to guarantee; to take care of; to safeguard; certainly; surely
[ほかん hokan: charge; custodial safekeeping; storage]

保管員[员] bao3 guan3 yuan2: custodian; storeroom clerk
[保管人 | ほかんにん hokannin: custodian; trustee]

主管zhu3guan3: in charge; responsible for; person in charge; manager
[しゅかん shukan: supervision; management]

Japanese expression/idiom
恋の手管 | こいのてくだ koi no te kuda
: wooing technique; the way to a man’s (woman’s) heart

管の穴から天を覗く | くだのあなからてんをのぞく kuda no ana kara ten o nozoku
: Have a narrow view of things

Chinese idiom
管中窺豹 [管中窥豹] guan3 zhong1 kui1 bao4
: lit. to see a leopard through a narrow tube: fig. to miss the big picture

雙管齊下 [双管齐下] shuang1 guan3 qi2 xia4
: lit. to paint holding two brushes: fig. to work on two tasks at the same time; to attack one problem from two angles at the same time

各人自掃門前雪，莫管他家瓦上霜 [各人自扫门前雪，莫管他家瓦上霜] ge4 ren2 zi4 sao3 men2 qian2 xue3 , mo4 guan3 ta1 jia1 wa3 shang4 shuang1
: sweep the snow from your own door step, and not worry about the frost on your neighbor’s roof