干
乹Meanings
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- 1.old variant of 干[gān]
- 1.surname Gan
- 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.tree trunk
- 2.main part of sth
- 3.to manage
- 4.to work
- 5.to do
- 6.capable
- 7.cadre
- 8.to kill (slang)
- 9.to fuck (vulgar)
- 10.(coll.) pissed off
- 11.annoyed
- 1.variant of 干[gān]
- 1.(bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with
- 2.one of the ten heavenly stems 天干[tiān gān]
- 3.(archaic) shield
- 1.surname Gan
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Wiktionary
- 1.to fuck
- 2.An interjection used to express one's anger: fuck!
- 3.to chide; to swear; to curse; to scold
- 4.to concern; to be implicated in; implication
- 5.a shield
- 6.to request; to ask
- 7.to offend; to encroach on
- 8.to interfere; to intervene
- 9.bank; edge of water bodies
- 10.8th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "opposition" (𝌍)
- 11.group (of people)
- 12.A place in modern Yangzhou.
- 13.a surname
- 14.in vain; for nothing
- 15.Used in transcription.
- 16.to defend
- 17.to establish
- 18.dry
- 19.cheers!
- 20.Gan River (a river in Jiangxi, China)
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形) of a shield with feather ornaments on top; in some versions in oracle bones, the central and flat part of the shield can be seen as 回. As an alternative, it is possible 干 and 單 are variant forms of the same character in oracle bone script due to their similar shapes and its appearance in the original forms of 敢. Hence, 干 would depict a bifurcated hunting weapon, not a shield. But 單 has two dots on top that depict two stones, while these two dots are absent in 干. Also borrowed phonetically as a simplification of 乾 (dry) and 幹. See also 盾 (the pictogram of another shield) and its possible differentiation 古. The interpretation that links this pictogram to a pestle is folk etymology. Unrelated to 午, which however represents a pestle. Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with 扞 (OC *ɡaːns, “to shield; to protect”), 閈 (OC *ɡaːns, “gate”), 捍 (OC *ɡaːns, *ɡraːnʔ, “to shield, ward off”). Compare Tibetan འགལ ('gal, “to go against, to violate, to contradict”), Burmese ကာ (ka, “shield; to shield; to block”).
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Components
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Example sentences
干的好！
Well done!
干的好！
Good job!
我不干了。
I quit.
你干得很好。
You did a good job.
汤姆不干了。
Tom quit.
我喉咙很干。
My throat feels dry.
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