乾
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[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)
- dry
- first of the 8 trigrams
- 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
[edit] Cantonese
[edit] Hanzi
乾 (Yale gon1, kin4)
[edit] Japanese
[edit] Kanji
乾 (common kanji)
[edit] Readings
[edit] Korean
[edit] Hanja
乾 (hangeul 간, 건, revised gan, geon, McCune-Reischauer kan, kŏn)
[edit] Mandarin
[edit] Hanzi
乾 (simplified 干, pinyin gān (gan1), qián (qian2), Wade-Giles kan1, ch'ien2)
[edit] Compounds
[edit] Vietnamese
[edit] Han character
乾 (kiền, cạn, can, càn, khan, gàn)
Categories: Han phono-semantic compounds | Chinese words needing attention | Han characters | Cantonese definitions needed | Common kanji | Japanese kanji | Japanese definitions needed | Korean hanja | Korean definitions needed | Mandarin definitions needed | Vietnamese Han tu | Vietnamese definitions needed

