桿

See also: 杆

桿	U+687F, 桿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-687F

← 桾
[U+687E]

CJK Unified Ideographs

梀 →
[U+6880]

Translingual

Han character

桿 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 木日一十 (DAMJ), four-corner 4694₁, composition ⿰木旱)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 527, character 23
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14823
Dae Jaweon: page 916, character 16
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1213, character 2
Unihan data for U+687F

Chinese

trad.		桿
simp.		杆^*

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (干) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
訐	krads, krads, ked, kad
肝	*kaːn
竿	*kaːn
干	*kaːn
奸	*kaːn
玕	*kaːn
汗	kaːn, ɡaːn, *ɡaːns
迀	*kaːn
忓	kaːn, ɡaːns
鳱	*kaːn
邗	kaːn, ɡaːn
秆	*kaːnʔ
矸	kaːnʔ, kaːns, *ɡaːns
仠	*kaːnʔ
皯	*kaːnʔ
衦	*kaːnʔ
簳	*kaːnʔ
擀	*kaːnʔ
旰	*kaːns
盰	*kaːns
幹	*kaːns
杆	*kaːns
骭	kaːns, ɡraːns
桿	*kaːnʔ
趕	*kaːnʔ
稈	*kaːnʔ
刊	*kʰaːn
靬	kʰaːn, kʰaːns, kreːn, kan
衎	kʰaːnʔ, kʰaːns
犴	ŋaːn, ŋaːns
豻	ŋaːn, ŋaːns, ɦŋaːns, ŋ̊ʰraːn
頇	ŋaːns, hŋaːn, *ŋaːd
岸	*ŋɡaːns
鼾	qʰaːn, ɢaːns
罕	qʰaːnʔ, qʰaːns
焊	qʰaːnʔ, ɡaːns
蔊	*qʰaːnʔ
虷	*ɡaːn
旱	*ɡaːnʔ
皔	*ɡaːnʔ
釬	*ɡaːns
扞	*ɡaːns
閈	*ɡaːns
馯	ɡaːns, kʰraːn
捍	ɡaːns, ɡraːnʔ
悍	*ɡaːns
銲	*ɡaːns
垾	*ɡaːns
駻	*ɡaːns
睅	*ɡʷranʔ
娨	*ɡraːns
飦	*kan
赶	ɡan, ɡʷad
軒	*qʰan
蓒	*qʰan
酐	*qʰaːŋʔ
澣	*ɡʷaːnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kaːnʔ): semantic 木 + phonetic 旱 (OC *ɡaːnʔ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): gǎn (gan³)

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gon¹ / gon² / gon³
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gang¹ / gang³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kan / kán / koáiⁿ
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵koe

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: gǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄢˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: gǎn
  - Wade–Giles: kan³
  - Yale: gǎn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gaan
  - Palladius: гань (ganʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kän²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: gǎnr
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄢˇㄦ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: gǎnr
  - Wade–Giles: kan³-ʼrh
  - Yale: gǎnr
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gaal
  - Palladius: ганьр (ganʹr)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɑɻ²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: gon¹ / gon² / gon³
  - Yale: gōn / gón / gon
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gon¹ / gon² / gon³
  - Guangdong Romanization: gon¹ / gon² / gon³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔːn⁵⁵/, /kɔːn³⁵/, /kɔːn³³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: gang¹
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: gang
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaŋ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: gang¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaŋ⁵⁴⁴/
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: gang³
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: gâng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaŋ⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: gang³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaŋ³³²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kan
  - Tâi-lô: kan
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kafn
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /kan⁴⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /kan³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kán
  - Tâi-lô: kán
  - Phofsit Daibuun: karn
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /kan⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koáiⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: kuáinn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kvoae
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /kuãi⁵³/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /kuãi⁴¹/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁵koe
  - MiniDict: koe^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²koe
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /kø³⁴/

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*kaːnʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	桿
Reading #	1/1
No.	3591
Phonetic component	干
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	笴
Old Chinese	/*kaːnʔ/
Notes	笴今字

Definitions

桿

pole; stick; club; rod
lever; handle
操縱桿／操纵杆 ― cāozònggǎn ― joystick

手剎車桿已磨損。 [MSC, trad.]
手刹车杆已磨损。 [MSC, simp.]
Shǒushāchēgǎn yǐ mósǔn. [Pinyin]
The hand-brake lever is worn out.
shaft; barrel
槍桿／枪杆 ― qiānggǎn ― gun barrel
Classifier for long, cylindrical objects, such as guns.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 支 (“(classifier for pens or pencils)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		支, 桿
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	支
Cantonese	Guangzhou	支
	Hong Kong	支
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin; Weitou)	支
	Macau	支
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	支
	Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu)	支
	Guangzhou (Conghua)	支
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	支
	Foshan	支
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	支
	Foshan (Shunde)	支
	Foshan (Sanshui)	支
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	支
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	支
	Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou)	支
	Zhuhai (Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka)	支
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	支
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	支
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	支
	Taishan	支
	Kaiping (Chikan)	支
	Enping (Niujiang)	支
	Heshan (Yayao)	支
	Dongguan	支
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	支
Hakka	Huizhou (Huicheng; Bendihua)	支
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	桿
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	桿
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	支
	Guangzhou (Lütian, Conghua)	支
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	把
	Fuzhou (Changle)	把
	Fuqing	把
	Yongtai	把
	Gutian	把
	Fu'an	支
	Ningde	把
	Shouning	支
	Zhouning	支
	Fuding	支
Southern Min	Xiamen	支, 叢
	Quanzhou	支, 叢
	Zhangzhou	支, 叢
	Tainan	支
	Manila (Hokkien)	支
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	支
Note	支 is also written as 枝

Compounds

References

“桿”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “杆”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 72.

Japanese

Kanji

桿

(Hyōgai kanji)

stick

Readings

Go-on: かん (kan)
Kan-on: かん (kan)
Kun: てこ (teko)

Compounds

操縦桿(そうじゅうかん) (sōjūkan, “(aviation) control stick”)

Korean

Hanja

桿 • (han) (hangeul 한, revised han, McCune–Reischauer han, Yale han)

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Vietnamese

Han character

桿: Hán Việt readings: can, hãn
桿: Nôm readings: cán

chữ Nôm form of cán (“handle”)