• 幹みき

  (tree) trunk, (arrow) shaft, (tool) handle, backbone, base

• 幹線かんせん

  main line, trunk line

• 幹部かんぶ

  management, (executive) staff, leaders, leadership, top brass, upper echelons

• 幹事かんじ

  executive secretary, coordinator, organizer, person in charge of making arrangements

• 主幹しゅかん

  chief editor, managing editor

• 基幹きかん

  mainstay, nucleus, key

• 根幹こんかん

  foundation, root, basis, core, fundamentals

• 新幹線しんかんせん

  Shinkansen, bullet train

• 幹糸みきいと

  leader line

• 幹流かんりゅう

  main current

• 幹音かんおん

  natural note (i.e. not sharp or flat), natural tone

• 幹竹からたけ

  Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambusoides), giant timber bamboo, madake

• 体幹たいかん

  trunk (of the body), soma

• 語幹ごかん

  stem (non-inflecting part of a word), word stem

• 肉幹にくかん

  penis, dick

• 躯幹くかん

  body, trunk, torso, physique

• 骨幹こっかん

  skeleton, structure, build

• 脳幹のうかん

  brain stem

• 挺幹ていかん

  caudex (of a plant)

• 才幹さいかん

  ability

• 符幹ふかん

  stem (of a note)

• 麻幹おがら

  hemp reed, hemp stalk

• 樹幹じゅかん

  trunk, shaft

• 幹細胞かんさいぼう

  stem cell

• 幹部会かんぶかい

  board of directors

• 幹事会かんじかい

  board of governors

• 幹線道かんせんどう

  main road, main thoroughfare, arterial road

• 幹事長かんじちょう

  chief secretary (usu. of a party), secretary-general

• 党幹部とうかんぶ

  leading members of a party, party executive, party leadership, senior party members

• 浮矢幹うきやがら

  Scirpus yagara (species of club-rush)

• 麻幹花おがらばな

  Acer ukurunduense (species of Asian maple), Acer caudatum subsp. ukurundense

• 幹部学校かんぶがっこう

  Ground Staff College

• 幹線道路かんせんどうろ

  main road, main thoroughfare, arterial road

• 形容詞幹けいようしかん

  stem (word)

• 胚幹細胞はいかんさいぼう

  embryonic stem cell

• 補給幹線ほきゅうかんせん

  main supply route

• 基幹産業きかんさんぎょう

  key industry

• 鬼の矢幹おにのやがら

  Gastrodia elata (species of saprophytic orchid)

• 下位脳幹かいのうかん

  lower brainstem

• 上級幹部じょうきゅうかんぶ

  senior executive staff, upper management

• 基幹業務きかんぎょうむ

  mission-critical task, business-critical matter

• 編集主幹へんしゅうしゅかん

  editor-in-chief

• 最高幹部さいこうかんぶ

  senior leadership, senior leader, upper echelon (of power), top-ranking officer

• 幹ポリマーかんポリマー

  backbone chain (polymer), main chain (polymer)

• 幹線結合器かんせんけつごうき

  trunk coupling unit, trunk connecting unit, TCU

• 造血幹細胞ぞうけつかんさいぼう

  hematopoietic stem cell, haematopoietic stem cell

• 胚性幹細胞はいせいかんさいぼう

  embryonic stem cell, ES

• 主幹研究員しゅかんけんきゅういん

  senior chief engineer

• 山陽新幹線さんようしんかんせん

  San'yō Shinkansen

• 上越新幹線じょうえつしんかんせん

  Jōetsu Shinkansen