乾 Simplified: 干 On the HSK 1 vocabulary list, at CEFR level A1. gān ㄍㄢ dry dried food empty hollow taken in to nominal kinship adoptive foster futile in vain rude blunt dialect to cold-shoulder dialect Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT