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干

On the HSK 3 vocabulary list, at CEFR level A2.

gàn ㄍㄢˋ

  1. 幹
    • tree trunk
    • main part of sth
    • to manage
    • to work
    • to do
    • capable
    • cadre
    • to kill (slang)
    • to fuck (vulgar)
    • pissed off

      coll.

    • annoyed

Other words read gàn

In the same tone

All 9 words read gàn

gan with other tones

All 29 words read gan in any tone

Other words read gàn

In the same tone

All 9 words read gàn

gan with other tones

All 29 words read gan in any tone

gān ㄍㄢ

  1. 乾
    • dry
    • dried food
    • empty hollow
    • taken in to nominal kinship adoptive foster
    • futile in vain
    • rude blunt

      dialect

    • to cold-shoulder

      dialect

  2. 干
    • to have to do with to concern oneself with

      bound form

    • one of the ten heavenly stems 天干[tian1 gan1]
    • shield

      archaic

Other words read gān

In the same tone

All 14 words read gān

gan with other tones

All 29 words read gan in any tone

Other words read gān

In the same tone

All 14 words read gān

gan with other tones

All 29 words read gan in any tone

How 干 is written

    部首 radical
    干
    笔画 strokes
    3
    结构 structure
    独体字

    干 as a 部首

    干 is a 部首 (bùshǒu), a radical. A Chinese dictionary files every character under one of them, and this one files 7 under 干. Look a character up by the 干 radical

    Easy to confuse with 干

    Words with 干

    Starting with 干

    All 109 words starting with 干

    Ending with 干

    All 86 words ending with 干

    Containing 干

    All 52 words containing 干

    Example sentences and grammar articles using 干

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