幹

See also 干, and 榦

Translingual

Etymology

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

Han character

幹 (radical 51 干+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 十十人一十 (JJOMJ), four-corner 4844₁)

1. noun: trunk of tree or of human body
2. verb: (to) do
3. (slang): fuck, to have sex with (originated in Taiwan, but is gaining popularity in mainland China)

Derived terms

• 擀

References

• KangXi: page 341, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9183
• Dae Jaweon: page 650, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 409, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5E79

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Cantonese

Hanzi

幹 (simplified 干, Yale gon3)

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Japanese

Noun

幹 (hiragana みき, romaji miki)

1. a tree trunk

Kanji

幹 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: かん (kan)
• Kun: みき (miki), わざ (waza)

Compounds

• 新幹線 (しんかんせん, shinkansen)
• 脳幹 (のうかん, nōkan, “brain stem”)

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Korean

Hanja

幹 (hangeul 간, revised gan, McCune-Reischauer kan)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

幹 (simplified 干, pinyin gàn (gan4), Wade-Giles kan⁴)

Compounds

• 幹細胞

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Vietnamese

Han character

幹 (cán)