English
- dry
- surname Qian
- one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing heaven
- surname Gan
- dry
- dry
- to dry; to dehydrate
- in a dry manner
- used for nominal kinship
- warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male)
- male principle
- dried food
- dried; preserved; desiccated
- to completely consume an alcoholic drink
- trigram ☰
- ☰
- empty; hollow
- hexagram ䷀
- ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest)
- taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster
- futile; in vain
- (dialect) rude; blunt
- (dialect) to cold-shoulder
- dry-cured food, usually with salt
- the first Trigram (see 八卦), meaning sun, king or male, commonly used as a character for name
粵語
- 冇水份
- 移除一啲嘢入面嘅水分
- 用好少水；唔用水
- 唔係親生，只係結拜認來嘅親屬關係
- 經特別處理，抽走晒所有水份
- 飲清面前嘅酒
- 為咗長期保存，將食物風乾，多數會醃製
- 八卦嘅第一卦，有太陽、皇帝、男性意思，亦係用嚟做名嘅字
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 乾
- 陰乾jam1 gon1
to dry in the shade
- 乾淨gon1 zeng6
clean
- 乾脆gon1 ceoi3
candid
- 乾電池gon1 din6 ci4
dry cell (battery)
- 乾電gon1 din6
direct current (electricity)
- 乾燥gon1 cou3
(of weather, climate, soil etc) dry; arid
- 風乾fung1 gon1
to air-dry
- 牛肉乾ngau4 juk6 gon1
dried beef; beef jerky
- 餅乾beng2 gon1
biscuit; cracker; cookie
- 乾旱gon1 hon5
drought
- 菜乾coi3 gon1
dried vegetables
- 乾洗gon1 sai2
to dry clean
- 乾貨gon1 fo3
dried food (including dried fruits, mushrooms and seafoods such as shrimp and abalone)
- 乾冰gon1 bing1
dry ice (i.e. frozen CO2)
- 乾娘gon1 noeng4
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
- 乾爹gon1 de1
adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
- 乾糧gon1 loeng4
rations (to take on expedition)
- 乾涸gon1 kok3
to dry up
- 乾坤kin4 kwan1
yin and yang; heaven and earth; the universe
- 乾杯gon1 bui1
to drink a toast
- 乾枯gon1 fu1
withered; shriveled; dried-up
- 烘乾hung3 gon1
to dry over a stove
- 乾手機gon1 sau2 gei1
hand dryer
- 乾薑gon1 goeng1
dried ginger