gān, gàn
interfere
Pictograph of a type of hunting or military tool.

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
Moderngān
gān
dry; first hexagram; warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male); clean; in vain; dried food; foster; adoptive; to ignore
Gān
surname Gan
gān
to concern; to interfere; shield; stem
gàn
trunk of tree or of human body; tree trunk; main part of sth; to manage; to work; to do; capable; cadre; to kill (slang); to fuck (vulgar)
gān
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
tree trunk | ||
cadre | ||
what are you doing? | ||
clean | ||
whatever for? |
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ˤar | kan | gān | pole |
*kˤa[r] | kan | gān | shield (n.) |
*kˤar | kan | gān | piece, item |
*kˤar | kan | gān | (placename) |
HSK level 1
Appears in 98.6064% of movies
138th most common character in movies
353rd most common character in books
Strokes | 3 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+5E72 |
Shuowen | “干,犯也。从反入,从一。” |
季旭昇《說文新證》p.146
