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干

gān

Traditional: 幹

HSK 3
#298 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to do, to work (colloquial)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 干

干

Examples

？

What kind of work do you do?

！

Well done!

。

I quit.

杯bēi。

He downed a glass of wine.

。

The clothes aren't dry yet.

干 (gān) means to do, to work (colloquial). It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.

Related words

帮

to help, to assist

工作

work, job, to work

继续

to continue, to go on

开始

to begin, to start, beginning

用

to use, to need, using

Appears in 2 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 干.

干什么gàn shén mewhat are (you/they) doing, why do that干嘛gān mawhy, what for, what are you doing

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This word is part of lesson 6.