gàn gān

to do; to work; to manage

HSK 3 #353

Character data

HSK 3
Frequency 353rd character
Radical ⼲ (51.0)
Strokes 3
Index # 23
TRADITIONAL ,

Definitions

干 gàn
  1. 1. to do
  2. 2. to work
  3. 3. to manage
  4. 4. main part of sth
  5. 5. tree trunk
  6. 6. capable
  7. 7. cadre
  8. 8. to fuck (vulgar)
  9. 9. to kill (slang)
干 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

干 stroke order diagram
干 stroke order animation

Words containing 干

Word Meaning
dried vegetable
dried leaf
dried ginger
to cry out loud without tears
drysuit (diving)
to dry completely; to dry out
casein
dry distillation; carbonization; to carbonize
May 7 Cadre School (forcing educated people into re-education and peasant labor during Cultural Revolution)
to be assiduous and work full hours
erhua variant of bāo gān
a system of payment partly in kind and partly in cash
fig. to turn hostility into friendship
fig. to turn hostility into friendship
the ten Heavenly Stems in Chinese calendar
the ten heavenly stems; ten cyclical signs
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
Lactobacillus acidophilus
Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan
Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, Xinjiang