| 干 | ||
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| 干 (U+5E72) "oppose, dried" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | gān | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄍㄢ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | gan | |
| Wade–Giles: | kan1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | gōn | |
| Jyutping: | gon1 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | kan | |
| Japanese Kana: | カン kan (on'yomi) ほす hosu (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 간 gan | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 干/ほす hosu 干/かん kan 一十/いちじゅう ichijū (chiefly primary education) | |
| Hangul: | 방패 banpae | |
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Radical 51 or radical dry (干部) meaning "oppose" or "dried" is one of 31 out of the total 214 Kangxi radicals written with three strokes.
There are only nine characters derived from this radical, and some modern dictionaries have discontinued its use as a section header. In such characters that comprise 干 as a component, it mostly takes a purely phonetic role, as in 肝 "liver" (which falls under radical 130 肉 "meat").
干 is also the 27th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.