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乾HSK 1freq #463
Meanings
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- 1.dry
- 2.dried food
- 3.empty; hollow
- 4.taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster
- 5.futile; in vain
- 6.(dialect) rude; blunt
- 7.(dialect) to cold-shoulder
- 1.surname Gan
- 1.surname Qian
- 1.one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[bā guà], symbolizing heaven
- 2.male principle
- 3.☰
- 4.ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest)
- 1.old variant of 乾[qián]
- 1.variant of 乾[qián]
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Wiktionary
- 1.dry; moistureless; waterless; arid
- 2.to dry; to exhaust
- 3.to neglect; to snub
- 4.to drain one's glass; bottoms up
- 5.dried up; exhausted; drained
- 6.dry and coarse
- 7.dried-up food
- 8.adopted; adoptive; foster
- 9.in vain; for nothing
- 10.falsely; superficially
- 11.not sweet; lacking sweetness
- 12.first of the eight trigrams (bagua) used in Taoist cosmology, represented by the symbol ☰
- 13.first hexagram of the I Ching, represented by the symbol ䷀
- 14.sky; heaven
- 15.emperor; monarch
- 16.sun
- 17.northwest
- 18.man; male
- 19.a surname
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kaːn, *ɡran): phonetic 倝 (OC *kaːns) + semantic 乙. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kan (“to dry; to dry up”). Cognate with 旱 (OC *ɡaːnʔ, “drought”), Burmese ခန်း (hkan:, “to dry up; to evaporate”) (STEDT). The sense “lacking sweetness” is a semantic loan from French sec or English dry.
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
教室很乾淨。
The classroom is clean.
你的手乾淨嗎?
Are your hands clean?
這口井乾涸了。
The well ran dry.
這口井乾涸了。
The well has run dry.
湯姆是乾净的。
Tom is clean.
我的襯衫還沒乾。
My shirt isn't dry yet.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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Related words
乾陵 Qianling at Xianyang 咸阳市 in Shaanxi, burial site of third Tang emperor 高宗 and empress Wuzetian 武则天乾坤 yin and yang; heaven and earth; the universe萧乾 Xiao Qian (1910-1999), Mongolian-born, Cambridge-educated journalist active during Second World War in Europe, subsequently famous author and translator乾旦 male actor playing the female role (Chinese opera)乾县 Qian County or Qianxian, a county in Xianyang City 咸阳市[Xián yáng Shì], Shaanxi乾安 see 乾安县[Qián ān Xiàn]竺乾 Buddha (archaic)乾隆 the Qianlong era乾安县 Qian'an, a county in Songyuan City 松原市[Sōng yuán Shì], Jilin朝乾夕惕 cautious and diligent all day long (idiom)康乾盛世 booming and golden age of Qing dynasty (from Kang Xi to Qian Long emperors)旋乾转坤 lit. overturning heaven and earth (idiom); earth-shattering