| 幹 | [ gàn ] tree trunk, main part of sth, to manage, to work, to do, capable, cadre, to kill (slang), to fuck (vulgar), (coll.) pissed off, annoyed |
| 幹事 | [ gàn shi ] administrator, executive secretary |
| 幹事長 | [ gàn shi zhǎng ] secretary-general |
| 幹什麼 | [ gàn shén me ] what are you doing?, what's he up to? |
| 幹仗 | [ gàn zhàng ] to quarrel (dialect) |
| 幹勁 | [ gàn jìn ] enthusiasm for doing sth |
| 幹嗎 | [ gàn má ] see 幹嘛|干嘛[gan4 ma2] |
| 幹嘛 | [ gàn má ] what are you doing?, whatever for?, why on earth? |
| 幹將 | [ gàn jiàng ] capable person |
| 幹才 | [ gàn caí ] ability, capable |
| 幹掉 | [ gàn ] to get rid of |
| 幹材 | [ gàn caí ] ability, capable |
| 幹架 | [ gàn jià ] (dialect) to come to blows, to have a row |
| 幹校 | [ gàn ] school for cadres, May 7 cadre school 五七幹校 五七干校[Wu3 Qi1 gan4 xiao4] |
| 幹活 | [ gàn huó ] to work, to be employed |
| 幹活兒 | [ gàn huó ] erhua variant of 幹活|干活[gan4 huo2] |
| 幹流 | [ gàn liú ] main stream (of a river) |
| 幹渠 | [ gàn qú ] trunk canal |
| 幹細胞 | [ gàn xì baō ] stem cell |
| 幹線 | [ gàn xiàn ] main line, trunk line |
| 幹練 | [ gàn liàn ] capable and experienced |
| 幹群 | [ gàn qún ] cadres and masses, party officials and ordinary people |
| 幹話 | [ gàn huà ] (Tw) (slang) remark that sounds like it makes sense but is actually nonsense |
| 幹警 | [ gàn jǐng ] police, police cadres |
| 幹道 | [ gàn daò ] arterial road, main road, main watercourse |
| 幹部 | [ gàn bù ] cadre, official, officer, manager |
| 幹麼 | [ gàn má ] see 幹嘛|干嘛[gan4 ma2] |
| ⇒ 主幹 | [ zhǔ gàn ] trunk, main, core |
| ⇒ 主幹網絡 | [ zhǔ gàn wǎng luò ] core network |
| ⇒ 主幹網路 | [ zhǔ gàn wǎng lù ] core network, backbone network |
| ⇒ 主幹線 | [ zhǔ gàn xiàn ] trunk line (of road, network etc), backbone (cable) |
| ⇒ 五七幹校 | [ wǔ qī gàn ] May 7 cadre school (farm where urban cadres had to undertake manual labor and study ideology during the Cultural Revolution) (abbr. for 五七幹部學校|五七干部学校[Wu3 Qi1 gan4 bu4 xue2 xiao4]) |
| ⇒ 五七幹部學校 | [ wǔ qī gàn bù xué ] May 7 Cadre School (farm where urban cadres had to undertake manual labor and study ideology during the Cultural Revolution) (abbr. to 五七幹校 五七干校[Wu3 Qi1 gan4 xiao4]) |
| ⇒ 公幹 | [ gōng gàn ] public business, official work |
| ⇒ 出滿勤，幹滿點 | [ chū mǎn qín gàn mǎn diǎn ] to be assiduous and work full hours |
| ⇒ 單幹 | [ dān gàn ] to work on one's own, to work single-handed, individual farming |
| ⇒ 埋頭苦幹 | [ maí toú kǔ gàn ] to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work, to make an all-out effort, up to the neck in work |
| ⇒ 大幹 | [ dà gàn ] to go all out, to work energetically |
| ⇒ 實幹 | [ shí gàn ] to work industriously, to get things done |
| ⇒ 實幹家 | [ shí gàn jiā ] sb who gets things done, doer |
| ⇒ 審幹 | [ shěn gàn ] to examine the cadres (i.e. 審查幹部|审查干部[shen3 cha2 gan4 bu4]) |
| ⇒ 對著幹 | [ duì zhe gàn ] to adopt confrontational posture, to meet head-on, to compete |
| ⇒ 巧幹 | [ gàn ] to work resourcefully, to apply intelligence |
| ⇒ 巴爾幹 | [ bā ěr gàn ] Balkan |
| ⇒ 巴爾幹半島 | [ bā ěr gàn bàn daǒ ] Balkan Peninsula |
| ⇒ 強幹 | [ qiáng gàn ] competent, capable |
| ⇒ 愣幹 | [ lèng gàn ] to do things recklessly, to persist in doing sth in one's own way |
| ⇒ 才幹 | [ caí gàn ] ability, competence |
| ⇒ 提幹 | [ tí gàn ] to rise through the ranks (as a party cadre) |
| ⇒ 撒馬爾幹 | [ sǎ mǎ ěr gàn ] Samarkand, city in Uzbekistan, also written 撒馬爾罕|撒马尔罕 |
| ⇒ 新幹 | [ xīn gàn ] Xingan County in Ji'an 吉安[Ji2 an1], Jiangxi |
| ⇒ 新幹線 | [ xīn gàn xiàn ] Shinkansen (Japanese high-speed train) |
| ⇒ 新幹縣 | [ xīn gàn xiàn ] Xingan County in Ji'an 吉安[Ji2 an1], Jiangxi |
| ⇒ 有何貴幹 | [ yoǔ hé guì gàn ] What (noble errand) brings you here?, May I help you?, What can I do for you? |
| ⇒ 有才幹 | [ yoǔ caí gàn ] capable |
| ⇒ 樹幹 | [ shù gàn ] tree trunk |
| ⇒ 洗手不幹 | [ xǐ shoǔ bù gàn ] to totally stop doing something, to reform one's ways |
| ⇒ 涂爾幹 | [ tú ěr gàn ] Durkheim (1858-1917), French sociologist |
| ⇒ 猛幹 | [ měng gàn ] to tie in to |
| ⇒ 硬幹 | [ yìng gàn ] to proceed tenaciously in spite of obstacles |
| ⇒ 精幹 | [ jīng gàn ] crack (troops), special (forces), highly capable |
| ⇒ 精幹高效 | [ jīng gàn gaō ] top-notch efficiency |
| ⇒ 精明強幹 | [ jīng míng qiáng gàn ] intelligent and capable (idiom) |
| ⇒ 精明能幹 | [ jīng míng néng gàn ] able and efficient |
| ⇒ 總幹事 | [ zǒng gàn shi ] secretary-general |
| ⇒ 能幹 | [ néng gàn ] capable, competent |
| ⇒ 腦幹 | [ naǒ gàn ] brain stem |
| ⇒ 苦幹 | [ kǔ gàn ] to work hard |
| ⇒ 莖幹 | [ jīng gàn ] stem, stalk |
| ⇒ 蠻幹 | [ mán gàn ] to act rashly, to act precipitously regardless of the consequences, reckless, foolhardy, daredevil |
| ⇒ 詞幹 | [ cí gàn ] word stem (in linguistics) |
| ⇒ 說幹就幹 | [ shuō gàn jiù gàn ] to do what needs to be done, without delay |
| ⇒ 說幹就幹 | [ shuō gàn jiù gàn ] to do what needs to be done, without delay |
| ⇒ 調幹 | [ gàn ] to reassign a cadre, to choose a worker to be promoted to cadre |
| ⇒ 調幹生 | [ gàn shēng ] worker chosen to become a cadre and sent to complete his schooling |
| ⇒ 貴幹 | [ guì gàn ] (polite) your business, what brings you? |
| ⇒ 軀幹 | [ qū gàn ] trunk, torso |
| ⇒ 轉幹 | [ zhuǎn gàn ] to become a cadre (e.g. a promotion from shopfloor) |
| ⇒ 造血幹細胞 | [ zaò xuè gàn xì baō ] blood generating stem cells (in bone marrow) |
| ⇒ 間充質幹細胞 | [ jiān chōng zhì gàn xì baō ] mesenchymal stem cell MSC (in cell biology) |
| ⇒ 骨幹 | [ gǔ gàn ] diaphysis (long segment of a bone), fig. backbone |
| ⇒ 骨幹網路 | [ gǔ gàn wǎng lù ] backbone network |
| ⇒ 高幹 | [ gaō gàn ] high cadre, top party member |