乾 · qián · gān
dry; warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male); trigram ☰; hexagram ䷀
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
dry; warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male); trigram ☰; hexagram ䷀
- Mandarin
- qián · gān
- Cantonese
- kin4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 乾 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
カン ケン ゲン かわく かわかす いぬいKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 건
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+4E7E
- Radical
- 乙 · 5
- Strokes
- 11 · Unihan
- Residual
- 10
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
11 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 乾
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- kan · 古寒 反切 · #517
- Middle Chinese
- gjen · 渠焉 反切 · #636
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 4343 · kan = 山開一平寒見 · gjen = 山開三平仙群
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- qián gān
- kCantonese
- kin4
- kDefinition
- dry; warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male); trigram ☰; hexagram ䷀
- kTotalStrokes
- 11
- kRSUnicode
- 5.10
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+4E7E
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+4E7E U+5E72
- kGradeLevel
- 3
- kTGH
- 2013:2215
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- qián,gān 10056.100
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- gān 0352.091 · qián 0913.050
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- qián 296.130
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- qián粵kin4 gān粵gon1
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 古寒 渠焉
- Kangxi positions
- 0084.250
- Guangyun positions
- 122.38 142.27
- GSR references
- 0140c
- Cangjie
- JJON
- Four-corner
- 4841.7