干 (gān)
To interfere; dried food (e.g. 豆干 dried tofu)
How 干 is written
- Strokes
- 3
- Traditional
- 干
- Simplified
- 干 (unchanged)
干 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- gān
- surname Gan
- gàn
- tree trunk; main part of sth; to manage; to work
Common words using 干
- 乾淨 gānjìng
- clean; neat
- 幹嘛 gànmá
- what are you doing?; whatever for?; why on earth?
- 幹活 gànhuó
- to work; to be employed; manual labor
- 幹甚麼 gànshénme
- what are you doing?; what's he up to?
- 乾媽 gānmā
- godmother
- 乾杯 gānbēi
- to drink a toast; Cheers! (proposing a toast); Here's to you!
- 乾果 gānguǒ
- dried fruit; dry fruits (nuts etc)
- 乾枯 gānkū
- withered; dried up
- 乾洗 gānxǐ
- to dry clean; dry cleaning
- 乾涸 gānhé
- to dry up
- 乾澀 gānsè
- dry and rough (skin); hoarse (voice); dry and heavy (style)
- 乾燥 gānzào
- to dry (of weather, paint, cement etc); desiccation; dull
干 in a sentence
這件事不干你的事。
Zhè jiàn shì bù gān nǐ de shì.
“This matter is none of your business.”
How common is 干?
干 is the 353rd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 68.2% of all running text.
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