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Translingual [edit]

Stroke order
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Stroke order
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simpl.
trad.

Etymology [edit]

Pictogram (象形) – a pestle.

Exists as a traditional character, and also a simplification of two traditional characters: Simplified from  and .

干 干 干
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

Han character [edit]

(radical 51 +0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 一十 (MJ), four-corner 10400)

  1. oppose, offend
  2. invade, higher
  3. dried
  4. godparent

Derived characters [edit]

References [edit]

  • KangXi: page 339, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9165
  • Dae Jaweon: page 645, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 405, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5E72

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(traditional , , Yale gon1)


Hakka [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(POJ kon, Guangdong kon1, kon5, Hagfa Pinyim gon1)

References [edit]


Japanese [edit]

Kanji [edit]

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to dry

Readings [edit]

Compounds [edit]

  • 干渉 (かんしょう, kanshō)
  • 干魃 (かんばつ, kanbatsu)
  • 干天 (かんてん, kanten)

Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]

(hangeul , , revised gan, gang, McCune-Reischauer kan, kang)


Mandarin [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(traditional , , pinyin gān (gan1), gàn (gan4), Wade-Giles kan1, kan4)

Verb [edit]

干 (gàn, 幹)

  1. to do

Compounds [edit]

gān

gàn


Old Korean [edit]

Noun [edit]

(kan)

  1. (Silla) king

Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(can, cơn, càn, cán)