幹
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Translingual
    
    Han character
    
幹 (Kangxi radical 51, 干+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 十十人一十 (JJOMJ), four-corner 48441, composition ⿰𠦝𫢉)
Related characters
    
- 榦 (Variant traditional form of 幹 in mainland China)
- 干 (Simplified form of 幹 in mainland China)
References
    
- KangXi: page 341, character 9
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9183
- Dae Jaweon: page 650, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 409, character 9
- Unihan data for U+5E79
Chinese
    
| trad. | 幹 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 干* | |
| alternative forms | 榦/干 𫢉 | |
Glyph origin
    
Characters in the same phonetic series (干) (Zhengzhang, 2003)  
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| 訐 | *krads, *krads, *ked, *kad | 
| 肝 | *kaːn | 
| 竿 | *kaːn | 
| 干 | *kaːn | 
| 奸 | *kaːn | 
| 玕 | *kaːn | 
| 汗 | *kaːn, *ɡaːn, *ɡaːns | 
| 迀 | *kaːn | 
| 忓 | *kaːn, *ɡaːns | 
| 鳱 | *kaːn | 
| 邗 | *kaːn, *ɡaːn | 
| 秆 | *kaːnʔ | 
| 矸 | *kaːnʔ, *kaːns, *ɡaːns | 
| 仠 | *kaːnʔ | 
| 皯 | *kaːnʔ | 
| 衦 | *kaːnʔ | 
| 簳 | *kaːnʔ | 
| 擀 | *kaːnʔ | 
| 旰 | *kaːns | 
| 盰 | *kaːns | 
| 幹 | *kaːns | 
| 杆 | *kaːns | 
| 骭 | *kaːns, *ɡraːns | 
| 桿 | *kaːnʔ | 
| 趕 | *kaːnʔ | 
| 稈 | *kaːnʔ | 
| 刊 | *kʰaːn | 
| 靬 | *kʰaːn, *kʰaːns, *kreːn, *kan | 
| 衎 | *kʰaːnʔ, *kʰaːns | 
| 犴 | *ŋaːn, *ŋaːns | 
| 豻 | *ŋaːn, *ŋaːns, *ɦŋaːns, *ŋ̊ʰraːn | 
| 頇 | *ŋaːns, *hŋaːn, *ŋaːd | 
| 岸 | *ŋɡaːns | 
| 鼾 | *qʰaːn, *ɢaːns | 
| 罕 | *qʰaːnʔ, *qʰaːns | 
| 焊 | *qʰaːnʔ, *ɡaːns | 
| 蔊 | *qʰaːnʔ | 
| 虷 | *ɡaːn | 
| 旱 | *ɡaːnʔ | 
| 皔 | *ɡaːnʔ | 
| 釬 | *ɡaːns | 
| 扞 | *ɡaːns | 
| 閈 | *ɡaːns | 
| 馯 | *ɡaːns, *kʰraːn | 
| 捍 | *ɡaːns, *ɡraːnʔ | 
| 悍 | *ɡaːns | 
| 銲 | *ɡaːns | 
| 垾 | *ɡaːns | 
| 駻 | *ɡaːns | 
| 睅 | *ɡʷranʔ | 
| 娨 | *ɡraːns | 
| 飦 | *kan | 
| 赶 | *ɡan, *ɡʷad | 
| 軒 | *qʰan | 
| 蓒 | *qʰan | 
| 酐 | *qʰaːŋʔ | 
| 澣 | *ɡʷaːnʔ | 
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kaːns) : semantic 倝 + phonetic 干 (OC *kaːn).
Etymology 1
    
The vulgar sense entered Mandarin from Min Nan 姦/奸 (kàn), as 姦 shares the same pronunciation with 幹 in Min Nan.
This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
    
Definitions
    
幹
- main part of something; body; trunk
- (colloquial) to do
- to work
- (vulgar) to fuck; to engage in sexual intercourse
- 幹恁娘!/干恁娘! [Hokkien] ― Kàn-lín-niâ! [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― Fuck your mother!
- 幹你媽!/干你妈! ― Gàn nǐ mā! ― Fuck your mother!
 - 金榮只一口咬定說:「方才明明的撞見他兩個在後院子里親嘴摸屁股,一對一肏,撅草根兒抽長短,誰長誰先幹。」 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
- From: Cao Xueqin, Dream of the Red Chamber, mid-18th century CE
- Jīn Róng zhǐ yīkǒu yǎodìng shuō: “Fāngcái míngmíng de zhuàngjiàn tā liǎng ge zài hòuyuànzi lǐ qīnzuǐ mō pìgǔ, yīduìyī cào, juē cǎogēnr chōu chángduǎn, shéi cháng shéi xiān gàn.” [Pinyin]
- (please add an English translation of this example)
 
 金荣只一口咬定说:“方才明明的撞见他两个在后院子里亲嘴摸屁股,一对一肏,撅草根儿抽长短,谁长谁先干。” [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]
 
- (vulgar) to kill
- (vulgar, chiefly Taiwan) to steal
- (vulgar, chiefly Taiwan) to blame; to condemn
- (Taiwan, vulgar, colloquial) Expressing dismay or discontent.
Synonyms
    
- (to do):
- (to fuck):
Dialectal synonyms of 肏 (“to fuck; to have sex with”) [map]
Compounds
    
Derived terms from 幹
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Pronunciation
    
Pronunciation
    
References
    
- “幹”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
Japanese
    
    
Etymology 1
    

幹 (miki): a tree trunk.
| Kanji in this term | 
|---|
| 幹 | 
| みき Grade: 5 | 
| kun’yomi | 
Originally a compound of 身 (mi, “body”) + 木 (ki, “tree”).[1][2][3]
First cited to a text from 1726.[1]
Pronunciation
    
Etymology 2
    
| Kanji in this term | 
|---|
| 幹 | 
| から Grade: 5 | 
| kun’yomi | 
| For pronunciation and definitions of 幹 – see the following entry. | ||
| 
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| (This term, 幹, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) | 
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): [kã̠ɴ]
Derived terms
    
Derived terms
- 幹細胞 (kansaibō): stem cell
- 新幹線 (shinkansen): bullet train
- 脳幹 (nōkan): brain stem
References
    
- 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
- 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
Korean
    
    Hanja
    
幹 • (gan) (hangeul 간, revised gan, McCune–Reischauer kan)
- This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
Vietnamese
    
    
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