乾
qián
dry; warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male); trigram ☰; hexagram ䷀
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 乙
- HSK
- —
- Tone
- 2
Other readings: gān
Simplified form: 干
Stroke order
Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 干, the simplified form of 乾. 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
干的好！
Gàn de hǎo
Well done!
Shadow我不干了。
Wǒ bù gàn le
I quit.
Shadow在干什么？
Zài gàn shén me
What are you doing?
Shadow不干我的事！
Bù gàn wǒ de shì
Don't bother me.
Shadow
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words containing 干
- 干gàn 4tree trunk; main part of sth; to manage; to work; to do; capable; cadre; to kill (slang); to fuck (vulgar); (coll.) pissed off; annoyed
- 干净gān jìng 1–4 clean; neat
- 干什么gàn shén me 4–2–5what are you doing?; what's he up to?
- 干杯gān bēi 1–1 to drink a toast; Cheers! (proposing a toast); Here's to you!; Bottoms up!; lit. dry cup
- 干活儿gàn huó r 4–2 erhua variant of 干活; (coll.) to work; (coll.) to be employed
- 干吗gàn má 4–2 see 干嘛
- 饼干bǐng gān 3–1 biscuit; cracker; cookie
- 干燥gān zào 1–4 to dry (of weather, paint, cement etc); desiccation; dull; uninteresting; arid
- 能干néng gàn 2–4 capable; competent
- 干脆gān cuì 1–4 candid; direct and to the point; simply; just; might as well
- 干扰gān rǎo 1–3 to disturb; to interfere; perturbation; interference (physics)
- 干预gān yù 1–4 to meddle; to intervene; intervention