The 干 family
干 · gān · ㄍㄢ — to have to do with
Know 干 and the readings of 7 more characters follow: 杆、汗、罕、奸、肝、刊、旱. In traditional Chinese, most characters carry a sound component — a phonetic — and learning the phonetic once lights up its whole family. This page is that family, drawn live from the map.
The characters
One sound, many meanings: the 部首 beside each character is the other half of the pair, the part that tells them apart.
- 杆gān · ㄍㄢ部首 木 · treepole; shaft89%
- 汗hàn · ㄏㄢˋ部首 氵 三點水 · waterperspiration; sweat67%
- 罕hǎn · ㄏㄢˇ部首 网 · netrare67%
- 奸jiān · ㄐㄧㄢ部首 女 · femalewicked; crafty58%
- 肝gān · ㄍㄢ部首 肉 · meatliver; (slang) to put in long hours, typically late into the night, playing (a video game)89%
- 刊kān · ㄎㄢ部首 刂 立刀旁 · knifeto print; to publish67%
- 旱hàn · ㄏㄢˋ部首 日 · sundrought67%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 干 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 干 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 72%.
Words this family builds
- 阿富汗
- 干擾
- 干涉
- 穆罕默德
- 罕見
- 心肝
- 刊登
- 干預
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