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

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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).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 桿

1. pole; stick; club; rod
2. 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.

3. shaft; barrel

   槍桿／枪杆  ―  qiānggǎn  ―  gun barrel

4. Classifier for long, cylindrical objects, such as guns.

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Japanese

Kanji

桿

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. stick

Readings

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

Compounds

Compounds

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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Vietnamese

Han character

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

1. Nôm form of cán (“handle”).