gǎn

straw

Dried  grain stalks  also provides the pronunciation

Components
禾 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

grain stalk

干 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

gāngàn

  

interfere

Evolution

秆 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
秆 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
秆 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
秆 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
秆 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

gǎn

stalk of grain; straw; stalks of grain

Most common words with 秆
Freq.
Word
Meaning

stalks of grain

秸秆

straw

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤa[r]ʔ

kanX

gǎn

straw of grain


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4132nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

Unicode

U+79C6

Shuowen

“稈,禾莖也。从禾,旱聲。《春秋傳》曰:‘或投一秉稈。’秆,稈或从干。”


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