乾

Simplified: 干

On the HSK 4 vocabulary list, at CEFR level B1.

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gān ㄍㄢ

- dry
- dried food
- empty hollow
- taken in to nominal kinship adoptive foster
- futile in vain
- rude blunt
  dialect
- to cold-shoulder
  dialect

Other words read gān

In the same tone

幹 gàn manage
肝 gān liver
桿 gǎn stick
甘 gān sweet
柑 gān large tangerine

All 14 words read gān

gan with other tones

敢 gǎn dare
感 gǎn feel
趕 gǎn overtake
贛 gàn Gan River in Jiangxi Province 江西省 jiāngxīshěng
稈 gǎn stalks of grain

All 29 words read gan in any tone

How 乾 is written

部首 radical: 乙
笔画 strokes: 11, with 10 after the 部首
结构 structure: 左右结构
偏旁 parts: 龺乞

Words with 乾

Starting with 乾

乾隆 qiánlóng Qianlong era
乾淨 gānjìng clean
乾脆 gāncuì candid
乾燥 gānzào arid
乾旱 gānhàn drought

All 76 words starting with 乾

Ending with 乾

餅乾 bǐnggān biscuit
烘乾 hōnggān dry over a stove
包乾 bāogān allocated task
風乾 fēnggān air-dry
晾乾 liànggān dry (sth) by airing

All 33 words ending with 乾

Containing 乾

一乾二淨 yīgānèrjìng thoroughly
不乾不淨 bùgānbùjìng unclean
口乾舌燥 kǒugānshézào talk too much
扭轉乾坤 niǔzhuǎnqiánkūn turn things around
吃乾飯 chīgānfàn be incompetent

All 23 words containing 乾

Example sentences and grammar articles using 乾

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Sources

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