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幹 — Chinese character

幹
gàn
arid, dry; to oppose; to offend; to invade

Pinyin
gàn
Radical
51 ⼲ (Dry)
Strokes
13
Components
龺 人 干
Formation
pictographic — Sunlight 龺 suggests "dry"; a club 人干 suggests "invade"
Simplified
干
Japanese
幹 as a kanji

幹 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: I Ching 4 · Zhuangzi 2

Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.

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