干 (乾) gān

1. gān adjective dry
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Traditional: 乾 (Guoyu '乾' gān adj 1)
2. gān adjective parched
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Traditional: 乾; in the sense of 枯竭 (Guoyu '乾' gān adj 2)
3. gān noun trunk
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Traditional: 幹 (CC-CEDICT '幹'; Guoyu '幹'; Unihan '幹')
4. gān adjective like family
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Traditional: 乾; for example, 干爹 'godfather' (Guoyu '乾' gān adj 4)
5. gān noun Kangxi radical 51
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: Traditional 干 (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7; Guoyu '干' gān n 7)
6. gān noun dried food
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Traditional: 乾 or 干; for example, 牛肉干 'beef jerky' (Guoyu '乾' gān n 1)
7. gān verb to dry out
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Traditional: 乾 (Guoyu '乾' gān v 1)
8. gān verb to use up
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Traditional: 乾; in the sense of 竭尽 (Guoyu '乾' gān v 2)
9. gān verb to slight; to look down on
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Traditional: 乾; in the sense of 怠慢 (Guoyu '乾' gān v 3)
10. gān adverb with nothing remaining
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Traditional: 乾 (Guoyu '乾' gān adv 1)
11. qián noun qian; the first of the Eight trigrams
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文 , Concept: Trigram 卦
    Notes: Symbolic form ☰; listed in the 易經 ”Book of Changes” (NCCED '乾' n 1; Nylan 2001, p. 218; Unihan '乾')
12. qián noun the male principle
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 男性的. For example, in 易經·繫辭上 ”Book of Changes” - Xi Ci I: 乾道成男 'The attributes expressed by Qian constitute the male' (trans. Legge 1882; Guoyu '乾' adj; NCCED '乾' 2; Unihan '乾')
13. qián proper noun Qian
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (NCCED '乾' n 2)
14. gān adverb in vain
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Traditional: 乾; in the sense of 徒然 (Guoyu '乾' gān adv 2)
15. gān adverb superficially
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Traditional: 乾; in the sense of 表面的 (Guoyu '乾' gān adv 3)
16. qián proper noun Qian [symbol]
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Traditional: 乾; name of a divination symbol 卦名 in the Yijing (Guoyu '乾' qián n 1)
17. qián proper noun Qian
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: Traditional: 乾 or 干 (Guoyu '乾' qián n 2)
18. qián adjective masculine; manly
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Traditional: 乾 (Guoyu '乾' qián adj)
19. gān noun a shield
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Traditional: 干; in the sense of 盾 (Guoyu '干' gān n 1)
20. gān noun gan [heavenly stem]
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Traditional: 干; same as 天干 (Guoyu '干' gān n 2)
21. gān noun shore
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Traditional: 干; in the sense of 岸边 (Guoyu '干' gān n 3)
22. gān noun a hoard [of people]
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Traditional: 干; in the sense of 群 (Guoyu '干' gān n 5)
23. gān verb to commit an offense
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Traditional: 干; in the sense of 干犯 (Guoyu '干' gān v 1)
24. gān verb to pursue; to seek
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Traditional: 干; in the sense of 求取 (Guoyu '干' gān v 2)
25. gān verb to participate energetically
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Traditional: 干; for example, 干政 'participate in politics' (Guoyu '干' gān v 3)
26. gān verb to be related to; to concern
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Traditional: 干; in the sense of 有关系, as in 相干 (Guoyu '干' gān v 4)

Contained in

• 威化饼干(威化餅乾) wafer; wafer cookie
• 干脆(乾脆) concise; succinct; blunt ; straightforward; simple
• 调干(調幹) to reassign a cadre; to choose a worker to be promoted to cadre
• 主干网络(主幹網絡) core network
• 苦干(苦幹) to work hard
• 干燥机(乾燥機) a drier
• 干卿何事 what has this go to do with you?
• 何干 what business?
• 干禄(干祿) to seek after fame and fortune
• 煎干(煎乾) to boil dry
• 实干(實幹) to work industriously; to get things done
• 干娘(乾娘) mother [respectful] ; godmother
• 宋干节(宋干節) Songkran (Thai New Year festival)
• 干涉 to interfere ; to involve; to implicate ; for a country to act independently, breaking with others ; wave interference
• 干儿子(乾兒子) adopted son
• 干预(干預) to meddle; to intervene
• 枯干(枯乾) withered
• 能干(能幹) capable; competent
• 热干面(熱乾麵) hot dry noodles
• 瓦干卡 Vishnu Shridhar Wakankar
• 干冰(乾冰) dry ice
• 干架(幹架) to come to blows; to have a row
• 实干家(實幹家) sb who gets things done; doer
• 干妈(乾媽) adoptive mother
• 不干不净，吃了没病(不乾不淨，吃了沒病) a little dirt never killed anybody; a couple of germs won't do you any harm
• 干粮(乾糧) rations
• 干掉(幹掉) to get rid of
• 阑干(闌干) criss-crossed fence ; disorderly ; like oblique starlight
• 干等(乾等) to wait in vain; to sit around waiting
• 大动干戈(大動干戈) to go to war ; to make a big fuss over sth
• 眼干症(眼乾症) xeropthalmia ; dry eye syndrome
• 审干(審幹) to examine the cadres
• 干哕(乾噦) to retch
• 干警(幹警) police; police cadres
• 干瘦(乾瘦) wizened; skinny and shriveled
• 苏打饼干(蘇打餅乾) soda biscuit; cracker
• 精干(精幹) crack (troops); special (forces); highly capable
• 干部(幹部) cadre; leader ; name of Kangxi radical 51
• 干瞪眼(乾瞪眼) to watch helplessly
• 干渴(乾渴) parched; dry mouth
• 香干(香乾) smoked bean curd
• 包干制(包乾制) a system of payment partly in kind and partly in cash
• 阴干(陰乾) to dry in the shade
• 干嘛(幹嘛) what are you doing?; whatever for?; why on earth?

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• 卷一百二十五 載記第二十五 乞伏國仁 乞伏乾歸 乞伏熾磐 馮跋 Volume 125 Records 25: Qifu Guoren; Qifu Gangui; Qifu Chipan; Feng Ba Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 69
• 卷八十三 志第三十六 律曆十六 Volume 83 Treatises 36: Measures and Calendar 16 History of Song 宋史 — count: 62
• 卷二一　列傳第十三　 高乾 封隆之 Volume 21 Biographies 13: Gao Gan (Northern Qi); Feng Longzhi Book of Northern Qi 北齊書 — count: 59
• 卷三十一　列傳第十九:　高允 高祐 盧曹 Volume 31 Biographies 19: Gao Yun, Gao Yu, Lu Cao History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 53
• 卷十七 志第七 律曆中 Volume 17 Treatises 7: Rhythm and the Calendar Part Two Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 39
• 卷八十九 志第四十二 地理五 Volume 89 Treatises 42: Geography 5 History of Song 宋史 — count: 35
• 卷七十六 列傳第二十六: 太宗諸子 Volume 76 Biographies 26: Taizong's Sons Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 30
• 卷八十二 志第三十五 律曆十五 Volume 82 Treatises 35: Measures and Calendar 15 History of Song 宋史 — count: 30
• 昭公 Lord Zhao The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 27
• 第二十八回 Chapter 28 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 26

Collocations

• 干侯 (乾侯) 公在乾侯 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 44
• 在干 (在乾) 公在乾侯 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 15
• 子干 (子乾) 右尹子干出奔晉 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 14
• 次于干 (次於乾) 而次于乾谿 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 8
• 干时 (乾時) 及齊師戰于乾時 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 5
• 干肉 (乾肉) 乾肉不齒決 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曲禮上》 Summary of the Rules of Propriety Part 1 — count: 5
• 干谿 (乾谿) 而次于乾谿 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 5
• 干溪 (乾溪) 弒其君虔于乾溪 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 4
• 干征 (乾徵) 楚人執陳行人干徵師 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 4
• 朱干 (朱乾) 朱干 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 4