乾

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 倝 + semantic 乙

[edit] Han character

乾 (radical 5 乙+10, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十十人弓 (JJON), four-corner 4841₇)

1. dry
2. first of the 8 trigrams
3. warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male)

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 84, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 204
• Dae Jaweon: page 172, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 56, character 10
• Unihan data for U+4E7E

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

乾 (Yale gon1, kin4)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

乾 (common kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: かん (kan), けん (ken), げん (gen)
• Kun: かわく (kawaku), かわかす (kawakasu), いぬい (inui)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

乾 (hangeul 간, 건, revised gan, geon, McCune-Reischauer kan, kŏn)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

乾 (simplified 干, pinyin gān (gan1), qián (qian2), Wade-Giles kan¹, ch'ien²)

[edit] Compounds

• 乾淨
• 乾酪

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

乾 (kiền, cạn, can, càn, khan, gàn)