幹

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 Derived terms 1.2.2 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Noun 3.2 Kanji 3.2.1 Readings 3.2.2 Compounds 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): semantic 倝 + phonetic 干

[edit] 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)

[edit] Derived terms

• 擀

[edit] 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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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

幹 (simplified 干, Yale gon3)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

幹 (hiragana みき, romaji miki)

1. a tree trunk

[edit] Kanji

幹 (grade 5 kanji)

[edit] Readings

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

[edit] Compounds

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

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

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

[edit] Compounds

• 幹細胞

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

幹 (cán)