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桿

gǎn

pole; stick; club; pole as unit

Strokes
11
Radical
木
HSK
—
Tone
3

Other readings: hàn

Simplified form: 杆

Stroke order

Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 杆, the simplified form of 桿. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.

Example sentences

  • 枪杆子里面出政权。

    Qiāng gǎn zi lǐ miàn chū zhèng quán

    Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 杆

  • 杆gān 1pole
  • 杠杆gàng gǎn 4–3 lever; pry bar; crowbar; financial leverage
  • 栏杆lán gān 2–1 railing; banister
  • 杆gǎn 3stick; pole; lever; classifier for long objects such as guns