乾

See also 亁, and 干

Translingual

Etymology

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

Han character

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

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

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

乾 (simplified 干, Yale gon1, kin4)

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Japanese

Kanji

乾 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

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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Korean

Hanja

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

1. (하늘 건, haneul-): sky
2. (건괘 건, geon-gwae-): ☷ or the 1st of the Eight Trigrams (☰☱☲☳☴☵☶☷ or 八卦 (팔괘, palgwae))
3. (임금 건, im-geum-): king
4. (마를 건, mareul-): to be dry

Synonyms

• 天 (천, cheon)
• 干 (간, gan) (translingual; simplified hanzi for 乾)

Antonyms

• 坤 (곤, gon)
• 地 (지, gi) earth
• 濕 (습, seup) wet

See also

八卦 (팔괘, palgwae)

7+0=111+000 (U+2630)*	☰	乾	天	sky
6+1=110+001 (U+2631)	☱	兌	澤	marsh
5+2=101+010 (U+2632)	☲	離	火	fire
4+3=100+011 (U+2633)	☳	震	雷	thunder
3+4=011+100 (U+2634)	☴	巽	風	wind
2+5=010+101 (U+2635)	☵	坎	水	water
1+6=001+110 (U+2636)	☶	艮	山	mountain
0+7=000+111 (U+2637)	☷	坤	地	earth

[*] Decimal pair=Binary pair (Codepoint). (The solid bar "—" of the Trigrams may be assigned to the binary number "1", while the split bar "--" to "0".)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

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

Compounds

• 乾淨
• 乾酪

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Vietnamese

Han character

乾 (kiền, cạn, can, càn, khan, gàn)

References

• Nom Foundation