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gān
dry; work
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Chapter-09 HSK-A
3 strokes

Explanation of characters by Herbert A. Giles

Kan is composed, under its old form, of 入 ju to enter, upside down, and 一 i one. It originally meant to oppose, and must be distinguished from 千.

Chinese-English (CC-CEDICT)



gān
old variant of 乾|干[gan1]



gān
dry/clean/in vain/dried food/foster/adoptive/to ignore/surname Gan



gān
variant of 乾|干[gan1]


gān
to concern/to interfere/shield/stem



gàn
tree trunk/main part of sth/to manage/to work/to do/capable/cadre/to kill (slang)/to fuck (vulgar)

Phrases ending with the given character

xiāng
gān
to be irrelevant/to have nothing to do with
shí
tiān
gān
the ten Heavenly Stems 甲[jia3], 乙[yi3], 丙[bing3], 丁[ding1], 戊[wu4], 己[ji3], 庚[geng1], 辛[xin1], 壬[ren2], 癸[gui3] (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III)
shí
gān
Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan
ér
gān
part of Heilongjiang and the Vladivostok area ruled by the Ming dynasty
duì
zhe
gàn
to adopt confrontational posture/to meet head-on/to compete
ěr
gān
Balkan
zhī
gān
Chinook (helicopter)
yǒu
cái
gàn
capable
ěr
gān
Durkheim
niú
ròu
gān
dried beef/jerky/charqui
tao
gān
raisin/dried grape

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