old variant of 乾[qian2]
surname Qian
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing heaven / male principle / ☰ / ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest)
variant of 乾[qian2]
surname Gan

= + : Guy Fawkes is drying his clothes in front of the anthill. He hangs them on a large construction made from a cross and a flute. Waiting for his clothes to dry, he heats some dried fruits.
dry / clean / in vain / dried food / foster / adoptive / to ignore

= + : Guy Fawkes is drying his clothes in front of the anthill. He hangs them on a large construction made from a cross and a flute. Waiting for his clothes to dry, he heats some dried fruits.
dry / dried food / empty; hollow / taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster / futile; in vain / (dialect) rude; blunt / (dialect) to cold-shoulder

乾 character breakdown

to beg

= 𠂉 + : The beggar gives the Queen of Hearts her key which he found. As a reward, she awards him a silver medal, pronouncing him second grade knight of the royal court.
surname Che
car / vehicle / CL:輛|辆[liang4] / machine / to shape with a lathe / Kangxi radical 159

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) is parading in a cabriolet (mnemonic symbol for 车) in front of the elevator (e1), because he wants to establish his new cult. Like all successful leaders, he takes the carrot-and-stick approach: In one hand he's waving with a seven-branched laser sword (七), in the other one he's waving with a cross (十).
war chariot (archaic) / rook (in Chinese chess) / rook (in chess)

Characters with 乾 as component

(Minnan dialect) beside / near / (used in place names)

Words with 乾

thoroughly (idiom) / completely / one and all / very clean
lit. smell of breast milk not yet dried (idiom) / fig. immature and inexperienced; still wet behind the ears
dry ice (i.e. frozen CO2) / CL:塊|块[kuai4]
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
adopted daughter (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
to cry out loud without tears
Qian'an county in Songyuan 松原, Jilin
Qian'an county in Songyuan 松原, Jilin
unclean / filthy / foul-mouthed
a little dirt never killed anybody (proverb) / a couple of germs won't do you any harm
income provided by a sinecure
adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
Three great poets of the Qianlong and Jiaqing era (1735-1820), namely: Yuan Mei 袁枚, Jiang Shiquan 蔣士銓|蒋士铨 and Zhao Yi 趙翼|赵翼
to dry-heave / to retch

Sentences with 乾

乾 currently does not appear in any sentence.