干 gān▶ kering

Stroke order

干 is written in 3 strokes.

• 干

Senses

1. dry
2. dried food
3. empty; hollow
4. taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster
5. futile; in vain
6. (dialect) rude; blunt
7. (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

• 干杯Bersulang!
• 饼干Biskuit
• 干净bersih
• 干燥Kering
• 干脆hanya; semata-mata
• 能干mampu

干 is pronounced gān and means “kering”. 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.