干
Meaning
- tree trunk
- main part of sth
- to manage
- to work
- to do
- capable
- cadre
- to kill (slang)
- to fuck (vulgar)
- (coll.) pissed off
- annoyed
乾
- dry
- dried food
- empty; hollow
- taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster
- futile; in vain
- (dialect) rude; blunt
- (dialect) to cold-shoulder
- surname Gan
干
- (bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with
- one of the ten heavenly stems 干
- (archaic) shield
How often each reading is used
Example sentences
- I have a lot of work to do tomorrow.
HSK words with 干
- 干净 gānjìng clean
- 干什么 gànshénme what are you doing?
- 干杯 gānbēi to drink a toast
- 干活儿 gànhuór erhua variant of 干活
- 干吗 gànmá see 干嘛
- 能干 nénggàn capable
- 干脆 gāncuì candid
- 干扰 gānrǎo to disturb
- 饼干 bǐnggān biscuit; cracker; cookie
- 干预 gānyù to meddle
- 干涉 gānshè to interfere
- 干燥 gānzào to dry (of weather, paint, cement etc)
- 若干 ruògān a certain number or amount
- 干部 gànbù cadre
- 干旱 gānhàn drought
- 干劲 gànjìn enthusiasm for doing sth
- 烘干 hōnggān to dry over a stove
- 干事 gànshi administrator
- 骨干 gǔgàn diaphysis (long segment of a bone)
- 才干 cáigàn ability
- 一干二净 yīgānèrjìng thoroughly (idiom)
- 干戈 gāngē weapons of war
- 说干就干 shuōgànjiùgàn to do what needs to be done, without delay