qián gān

surname Qian

Character data

Radical ⼄ (5.10)
Strokes 11
SIMPLIFIED

Definitions

乾 qián
  1. 1. surname Qian
  2. 2. one of the Eight Trigrams bā guà, symbolizing heaven
  3. 3. male principle
  4. 4.
  5. 5. ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest)
乾 gān
  1. 1. dry
  2. 2. clean
  3. 3. to concern
  4. 4. to interfere
  5. 5. stem
  6. 6. dried food
  7. 7. to ignore
  8. 8. in vain
  9. 9. foster
  10. 10. adoptive
  11. 11. shield
  12. 12. surname Gan
  13. 13. variant of gān
  14. 14. old variant of gān

Stroke order

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Words containing 乾

Word Meaning
cheese
casein
Qianling Mausoleum in Shaanxi
Qianlong Emperor of Qing China
cooked and dried rice
dry distillation; carbonization; to carbonize
to have the full responsibility of a job; allocated task
erhua variant of bāo gān
a system of payment partly in kind and partly in cash
lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much
(coll.) to be incompetent; useless; good-for-nothing
to blow-dry
endure insult without fighting back
strong in appearance but weak in reality (idiom)
constipated
Tahsi or Dasi dried dofu, Taiwanese Taoyuan speciality
novel The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River
sandwich cookie
wafer cookie; wafer
Parmesan cheese
Kachenjunga (Himalayan peak)
prosperous era under Kangxi and Qianlong
prone to stealing; thieving; light-fingered
to turn things around; fig. to change the course of events
to wipe dry