(guǎn) - to manage, to be in charge of, to mind, tube in Mandarin

guǎn

Traditional: 管

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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.

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Appears in 3 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 管.

不管bù guǎnno matter, regardless of, despite 尽管jǐn guǎnalthough, even though; feel free to 别管bié guǎnnever mind, don't bother about, leave it alone

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This word is part of lesson 21.