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淦
Mandarin · pinyin gàn
Meanings
- (archaic) water leaking into a boat
- historically, the name of a river in Jiangxi
- (neologism) to fuck (euphemistic variant of 幹 gàn)
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- 淦
- gàn · river in Jiangxi province; water leaking into a boat
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Mandarin tones
4 · gan4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
gaam3 · gam3
Cantonese word readings for 淦. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- (obsolete, rare, of water) to leak into a boat
- (～水) Gan (a river in Jiangxi, China)
- a surname
character · Etymology 2
- (chiefly Taiwan, Internet slang, vulgar) alternative form of 幹 /干 (gàn, “fuck”)
character · Etymology 3
- (alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 涵 (hán, “to immerse”)
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