gǎn
straw
Dried 干 grain stalks 禾; 干 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical 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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