干 / 乾
gān
Meaning
- dry
- dried food
- empty · hollow
- taken in to nominal kinship · adoptive · foster
- futile · in vain
- to have to do with · to concern oneself with
- one of the ten heavenly stems 天干 tiān gān
- rude · blunt
- to cold-shoulder
- surname Gan
- shield
Example sentences
你的手干净吗?
你的手乾淨嗎?
nǐ de shǒu gān jìng ma?
Are your hands clean?
我想知道，你这个夏天干了些什么？
我想知道，你這個夏天干了些什麼？
wǒ xiǎng zhī dào， nǐ zhè ge xià tiān gān le xiē shén me？
I'd like to know what you've been up to this summer?
我忘了告诉汤姆把饼干从烤箱拿出来。
我忘了告訴湯姆把餅乾從烤箱拿出來。
wǒ wàng le gào sù tāng mǔ bǎ bǐng gān cóng kǎo xiāng ná chū lái。
I forgot to tell Tom to take the cookies out of the oven.