乾 (qián)
Dry; dried food; adoptive (relationship).
How 乾 is written
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 十 — ten
- Traditional
- 乾
- Simplified
- 乾 (unchanged)
乾 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- qián
- surname Qian
- gān
- surname Gan
Common words using 乾
- 乾坤 qiánkūn
- Heaven and earth; Yin and Yang; The Universe
- 乾陵 qiánlíng
- Qianling at Xianyang 咸陽市|咸阳市 in Shaanxi, burial site of third Tang emperor 高宗 and empress Wuzetian 武則天|武则天
- 乾安 qiánān
- Qian'an county in Songyuan 松原, Jilin
- 乾縣 qiánxiàn
- Qian county in Xiányáng 咸陽|咸阳[Xian2 yang2], Shǎnxī 陝西|陕西
乾 in a sentence
衣服已經乾了。
Yīfú yǐjīng gān le.
“The clothes are already dry.”
How common is 乾?
乾 is the 1,996th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 97.1% of all running text.
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