Cojak Hanzi Dictionary: Hanzi Character Search: 乾

	乾
dry; first hexagram; warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male)
Radical	乙乚乛𠃉𠃊𠃋𠃌𠃍𠃎𠃑
Strokes (without radical)	10	Total Strokes	11
Mandarin reading	gān qián	Cantonese reading	gon1 kin4
Japanese on reading	kan ken gen	Japanese kun reading	kawaku kawakasu inui
Korean reading	kan ken	Vietnamese reading	kiền
Simplified Variant(s)		干
Specialized Semantic Variant(s)		亁

乾	[ qián ] old variant of 乾[qian2]
乾安县	[ qián ān xiàn ] Qian'an county in Songyuan 松原, Jilin
乾县	[ qián xiàn ] Qian County in Xianyang 咸陽\|咸阳[Xian2 yang2], Shaanxi
乾	[ qián ] variant of 乾[qian2]
⇒ 扭转乾坤	[ niǔ zhuǎn qián kūn ] lit. to upend heaven and earth (idiom), fig. to change the course of events, to turn things around
⇒ 旋乾转坤	[ xuán qián zhuǎn kūn ] lit. overturning heaven and earth (idiom); earth-shattering, a radical change
⇒ 萧乾	[ qián ] Xiao Qian (1910-1999), Mongolian-born, Cambridge-educated journalist active during Second World War in Europe, subsequently famous author and translator

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