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Translation

ga̅n = g + an1: dry / dried food / empty; hollow / taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster / futile; in vain / (dialect) rude; blunt / (dialect) to cold-shoulder

Mnemonic

Mnemonic symbol: dried fruit.

Guy Fawkes (g) is drying (干) his clothes in front of the anthill (an1). He hangs them on a large construction made from a cross (十) and a flute (一). Waiting for his clothes to dry, he snacks dried fruit (mnemonic symbol for 干).

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All translations for 干

old variant of 乾|干[gan1]
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(bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with / one of the ten heavenly stems 天干[tian gan1] / (archaic) shield
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tree trunk / main part of sth / to manage / to work / to do / capable / cadre / to kill (slang) / to fuck (vulgar) / (coll.) pissed off / annoyed
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dry / dried food / empty; hollow / taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster / futile; in vain / (dialect) rude; blunt / (dialect) to cold-shoulder
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干 character breakdown

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
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Characters with 干 as component

to offer (tribute) / to present respectfully (to superior, ancestor, deity etc) / to esteem / to revere / to believe in (a religion) / to wait upon / to accept orders (from superior)
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to overtake; to catch up with / to hurry; to rush / to try to catch (the bus etc) / to drive (cattle etc) forward; to drive (sb) away / to avail oneself of (an opportunity) / until; by (a certain time)
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to overtake / to catch up with / to hurry / to rush / to try to catch (the bus etc) / to drive (cattle etc) forward / to drive (sb) away / to avail oneself of (an opportunity) / until
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flat / level / equal / to tie (make the same score) / to draw (score) / calm / peaceful / abbr. for 平聲|平声[ping2 sheng1]
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trusted / intimate / (of the emperor) to visit / variant of 幸[xing4]
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perspiration / sweat / CL:滴[di1],頭|头[tou2],身[shen1] / to be speechless (out of helplessness, embarrassment etc) (Internet slang used as an interjection)
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see 可汗[ke4 han2], 汗國|汗国[han2 guo2]
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to lift / to hold up / to cite / to enumerate / to act / to raise / to choose / to elect / act / move / deed
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Words with 干

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]
trunk / main / core
adopted daughter (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
trunk line (of road, network etc) / backbone (cable)
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
to be irrelevant / to have nothing to do with
noninterference / nonintervention
income provided by a sinecure
adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
to cry out loud without tears
a little dirt never killed anybody (proverb) / a couple of germs won't do you any harm
unclean / filthy / foul-mouthed
to dry-heave / to retch
core network / backbone network

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