gǎn
straw
Dried 旱 grain stalks 禾; 旱 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
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
4132nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7A08 |
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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