干

幹traditional

HSK 3#463 by frequencyradical 十

Gān["v","a"]

dry; empty; hollow; futile; in vain; (bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with; dried food; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder; one of the ten heavenly stems 干; (archaic) shield

gàn["v","a"]

to do; to work; to manage; capable; cadre; tree trunk; main part of sth; to kill (slang); to fuck (vulgar); (coll.) pissed off; annoyed

Gān乾

surname Gan; dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder

Examples

干的好！

Good job!

我爱树干。

I love the trunk.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.