管
guǎnTraditional: 管
#1008 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
to manage, to be in charge of, to mind, tube
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the bamboo radical 竹 points to the original sense of a bamboo tube or pipe, and 官 (guān, official) gives the sound; the meanings to manage and to be in charge of grew from the idea of a controlling pipe or office.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 竹 (bamboo radical) + 官 (guān, official, phonetic)
Stroke order
管
Examples
。
I will be in charge of this matter.
。
Leave me alone.
？
Who is in charge of this department?
。
Mum is very strict.
。
This tube is broken.
管 (guǎn) means to manage, to be in charge of, to mind, tube. It is most often a verb of control or supervision.
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 管.
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