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Stroke order
干 is written in 3 strokes.
- 干
Senses
- dry
- dried food
- empty; hollow
- taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster
- futile; in vain
- (dialect) rude; blunt
- (dialect) to cold-shoulder
Example sentences
- 衣服已经干了。Yīfu yǐjīng gān le.The clothes are already dry.
- 外面的地是干的。Wàimiàn de dì shì gān de.The ground outside is dry.
Related words
干 is pronounced gān and means “seco”. HSK 4 places it in the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, the standardised measure of Chinese proficiency. There is a real difference between having seen 干 and being able to use it, and cramming a list flatters the first while doing little for the second. LexiTrail shows you the word again at the point your recall of it is about to lapse.