干
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dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder
3 strokes
Dict coverage rank #223 U+5E72
How 干 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
A club or axe
How to remember it
dry · Heisig RSH #1277
— as a component also called: clothesline
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 干 as their sound component
These characters all use 干 (gān) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 干 sound component | gān | arid, dry; to oppose; to offend; to invade |
| 杆 | gān | cane, pole, stick |
| 汗 | hàn | perspiration, sweat |
| 奸 | jiān | crafty, dishonest, selfish; evil, villainous; adultery |
| 刊 | kān | publication, periodical; to publish, to print |
| 肝 | gān | liver |
| 赶 | gǎn | to pursue, to overtake; to hurry; to expel |
| 竿 | gān | bamboo pole; penis |
| 轩 | xuān | pavilion; carriage; balcony |
| 鼾 | hān | to snore loudly |
| 矸 | gān | cliff; rock |
| 邗 | hán | an ancient place in the state of Wu |
| 旰 | gàn | sunset, dusk; evening |
| 犴 | àn | wild dog; jail, lock-up |
| 豻 | àn | prison, jail; a wild dog |
| 酐 | gān | anhydride |
Words containing 干
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 干儿子 | gān ér zi | adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications) |
| 白干儿 | bái gān r | alcoholic spirit; strong white rice wine |
| 干手机 | gān shǒu jī | hand dryer |
| 新干县 | Xīn gàn Xiàn | Xingan, a county in Ji'an City 吉安市[Ji2 an1 Shi4], Jiangxi |
| 不相干 | bù xiāng gān | to be irrelevant; to have nothing to do with |
| 巴尔干 | Bā ěr gàn | Balkan |
| 大干 | dà gàn | to go all out; to work energetically |
| 干事长 | gàn shi zhǎng | secretary-general |
| 无干 | wú gān | to have nothing to do with |
| 干儿 | gān ér | adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications) |
| 干儿 | gān r | dried food |
| 天干 | tiān gān | the 10 heavenly stems 甲[jia3], 乙[yi3], 丙[bing3], 丁[ding1], 戊[wu4], 己[ji3], 庚[geng1], 辛[xin… |
| 主干线 | zhǔ gàn xiàn | trunk line (of road, network etc); backbone (cable) |
| 干巴巴 | gān bā bā | dry; parched; dull; insipid |
| 高干 | gāo gàn | high cadre; top party member |
| 干面 | gān miàn | noodles mixed with a sauce and served with toppings (not in a soup); (dialect) flour |
| 公干 | gōng gàn | official business; to do official business |
| 新干线 | Xīn gàn xiàn | Shinkansen, Japan's high-speed rail network; Shinkansen train |
| 主干 | zhǔ gàn | trunk; main; core |
| 干事 | gàn shi | administrator; executive secretary |