Mnemonic comic for

Translation

ga̅n = g + an1: dry / dried food / empty; hollow / taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster / futile; in vain / (dialect) rude; blunt / (dialect) to cold-shoulder

Mnemonic

Mnemonic symbol: dried fruit. Guy Fawkes (g) is drying (干) his clothes in front of the anthill (an1). He hangs them on a large construction made from a cross (十) and a flute (一). Waiting for his clothes to dry, he snacks dried fruit (mnemonic symbol for 干).

All translations for 干

old variant of 乾|干[gan1]
variant of 乾|干[gan1]
(bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with / one of the ten heavenly stems 天干[tian gan1] / (archaic) shield
tree trunk / main part of sth / to manage / to work / to do / capable / cadre / to kill (slang) / to fuck (vulgar) / (coll.) pissed off / annoyed

= + : Guy Fawkes (g) is working (干) out in the anthill's bathroom (an4). He's lifting a flute (一) in one hand and a cross (十) in the other.
dry / dried food / empty; hollow / taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster / futile; in vain / (dialect) rude; blunt / (dialect) to cold-shoulder

= + : Mnemonic symbol: dried fruit.

Guy Fawkes (g) is drying (干) his clothes in front of the anthill (an1). He hangs them on a large construction made from a cross (十) and a flute (一). Waiting for his clothes to dry, he snacks dried fruit (mnemonic symbol for 干).

干 character breakdown

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
ten / 10

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a holy cross. Sherlock Holmes (sh-) is investigating a very strange thing he found in the kitchen of the space station (-2): A big pyramid made of ten (十) crosses (十), which are in turn made out of flutes (一) and dinosaur bones (丨).

Characters with 干 as component

surname Xing

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a fortune cookie.

Marie Curie (xi) got a job as the host in a game show in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4). Her guest is a crocodile with mean eyes (丷), and the crocodile has to choose one of three doors. He chooses one door, and Marie opens another one, behind which is just a pile of dirt (土). The whole audience then tells him to change his decision to increase his chance of winning to 50%, but he doesn't. Marie Curie then opens his doors and luckily (幸) it was the right one: behind it is the fortune cookie (幸). The crocodile's prize is a bag of dried fruits (干).
trusted / intimate / (of the emperor) to visit / variant of 幸[xing4]

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a fortune cookie.

Marie Curie (xi) got a job as the host in a game show in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4). Her guest is a crocodile with mean eyes (丷), and the crocodile has to choose one of three doors. He chooses one door, and Marie opens another one, behind which is just a pile of dirt (土). The whole audience then tells him to change his decision to increase his chance of winning to 50%, but he doesn't. Marie Curie then opens his doors and luckily (幸) it was the right one: behind it is the fortune cookie (幸). The crocodile's prize is a bag of dried fruits (干).
to print / to publish / publication / periodical / to peel with a knife / to carve / to amend

= + : Later in his life Karl Marx (k) turned more to the artsy side. He peeled (刊) dried fruits (干) with a kitchen knife (刂), squeezed the pulp into empty books and published (刊) them in front of the anthill (an1).
old variant of 刊[kan1] / to peel with a knife / to carve / to amend

= + : Later in his life Karl Marx (k) turned more to the artsy side. He peeled (刊) dried fruits (干) with a kitchen knife (刂), squeezed the pulp into empty books and published (刊) them in front of the anthill (an1).
south

= + + + : Mnemonic symbol: a palm tree (palms are only found in the south)

= + + + : Napoleon and the mean crocodile met in the anthill's kitchen to discuss a secret plan. The mean crocodile found a map which leads to a treasure of dried fruits. Napoleon and the mean crocodile agree to follow the map and claim the dried fruits, but each of them has his own secret agenda: Napoleon wants to claim the land and put up his big cross, and the crocodile just wants to relax under a palm tree.
surname Nan
to fornicate / to defile / adultery / rape

= + : Bessie Coleman (女) is secretly working as a spy (奸细) and so crafty (奸) that she is able to steal Joan of Arc's (ji) dried fruits (干) in front of her in front of the anthill (an1).
wicked / crafty / traitor / variant of 姦|奸[jian1]

= + : Bessie Coleman (女) is secretly working as a spy (奸细) and so crafty (奸) that she is able to steal Joan of Arc's (ji) dried fruits (干) in front of her in front of the anthill (an1).
to pay respect / worship / visit / salute

= + + : Martin Luther King (王) is being forced to worship (拜) Beelzebub (b) in the airplanes bathroom (ai4): Beelzebub is waving threateningly with a toy claw (扌). Martin Luther King also has to play the flute (一) for Beelzebub.
see 可汗[ke4 han2], 汗國|汗国[han2 guo2]
perspiration / sweat / CL:滴[di1],頭|头[tou2],身[shen1] / to be speechless (out of helplessness, embarrassment etc) (Internet slang used as an interjection)

= + : Hamlet is sweating a lot in the anthill's bathroom. He ate hot and spicy dried chilies and even a bottle of water can't help to quench his thirst.

Words with 干

thoroughly (idiom) / completely / one and all / very clean
lit. smell of breast milk not yet dried (idiom) / fig. immature and inexperienced; still wet behind the ears
dry ice (i.e. frozen CO2) / CL:塊|块[kuai4]
trunk / main / core
adopted daughter (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
trunk line (of road, network etc) / backbone (cable)
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
to be irrelevant / to have nothing to do with
noninterference / nonintervention
income provided by a sinecure
adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
to cry out loud without tears
a little dirt never killed anybody (proverb) / a couple of germs won't do you any harm
unclean / filthy / foul-mouthed
to dry-heave / to retch
core network / backbone network

Sentences with 干

lái
gàn
shén
me
de