桿 — Chinese character
桿
gān
cane, pole, stick
- Pinyin
- gān
- Radical
- 75 ⽊ (Tree)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 木 旱
- Formation
- pictophonetic — wood; meaning component 木; sound component 旱
- Simplified
- 杆
- Japanese
- 桿 as a kanji
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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