gān

Meanings

  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
  8. (bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with
  9. one of the ten heavenly stems 天干[tian gān]
  10. (archaic) shield

Quick facts

Traditional
Strokes3
HSK LevelHSK 1
CEFRA1

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