gǎn
straw
Dried 干 grain stalks 禾; 干 also provides the pronunciation
Seal script
Seal script
Clerical script
Clerical script
Regular script
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤa[r]ʔ | kanX | gǎn | straw of grain |
Not found in HSK word list
4132nd most common character in books
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。” |