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干

Traditional: 乹 · 乾 · 亁 · 幹

gān

HSK 3.0 · 1HSK 2.0 · 4

gān · gon1 (Jyutping)

  1. old variant of 乾|干[gan1]
  2. dry
  3. dried food
  4. empty; hollow
  5. taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster
  6. futile; in vain
  7. (dialect) rude; blunt
  8. (dialect) to cold-shoulder
  9. variant of 乾|干[gan1]
  10. (bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with
  11. one of the ten heavenly stems 天干[tian1 gan1]
  12. (archaic) shield
  13. surname Gan

gàn · gon3 (Jyutping)

  1. tree trunk
  2. main part of sth
  3. to manage
  4. to work
  5. to do
  6. capable
  7. cadre
  8. to kill (slang)
  9. to fuck (vulgar)
  10. (coll.) pissed off
  11. annoyed

Definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · snapshot 2026-10-09. Display: consolidated readings, linked characters and marked pinyin. Original data

Character breakdown

干

Meaning
oppose, offend; invade; dried
Radical
十
Strokes
3
Components
⿱一十
Cangjie
MJ
Four-corner
1040.0

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