The Chinese Radical: 干




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Meaning
dry    干

Explanation

Used in these characters:
HSK 1
year
nián
Comprises the trunk 丨 of a tree with three 三 branches, which is understood as a growing plant /丰. Additionally with two accents ノ,丨 which are understood as fruits.
When the growing plants bear fruit, it has passed: another year.  
HSK 3
equal, flat, level, calm
píng
Image of a balance
A balance is balancing until both sides are equal and flat.  
HSK 3
dry, clean, tree trunk, to concern
gān, gàn
Pictograph of a drying rail (laundry rack)
On the drying rack it becomes dry.  
HSK 3
in, at, to, from, by, than, out of

Looks at the bottom 亅 like an umbrella 伞 and keeps dry 干 (dry 干 = laundry rack)
I always have an umbrella at me.  
HSK 4
to hurry, to rush, to catch up, to overtake
gǎn
Left: go/walk 走 (On earth 土 feet 足 have to walk.), right: dry 干 (Here: laundry rack)
(It might rain:) I am (now) going to still stay dry and thus I am in a hurry.  
HSK 4
sweat, perspiration
hàn
Left: water 氵, right: dry 干 (laundry rack)
Water dries like sweat.  
HSK 5
shore, beach, coast, haughty
àn
Top: mountain 山, below: 厈 (a cliff 厂 and dry 干) [干 = laundry rack for drying.]
It is mountainous with dry cliffs, at: the shore.  
HSK 6
pole, stick, lever, "long objects"
gān, gǎn
Left: tree 木, right: dry 干 (laundry rack)
A tree that is dry (= dead), serves as a pole.  
HSK 6
rare, seldom
hǎn
Top: Variant of hole 穴 (It is covered 宀 and a narrowing path 八 leads into the cave), bottom: dry 干 (laundry rack)
(Water collects in holes) A hole that is dry is rare and seldom.  
HSK 6
drought
hàn
Top: sun 日, bottom: dry 干 (laundry rack)
If the sun is particularly drying, it is a drought.  
HSK 6
to print, to publish, publication
kān
Left: dry 干 (laundry rack), right: knife刂 (Here: see the knife as printing plates 刂)
You need dry printing plates for printing & publishing.  
HSK 6
ward off (a blow)
hàn
Left: hand 扌, right: drought 旱 (The sun 日 has dried 干.)
By hand the drought is warded off.  
no HSK
liver
gān
Left: body part 月/肉, right: dry 干 (laundry rack)
(no fluid flows out) A body part that is relatively dry, is the liver.  
no HSK
pavilion with a view, high, tall, curtained carriage (old)
xuān
Left: vehicle 车 (車= cart with axle丨 load-area 日 wheels 二), right: dry 干 (laundry rack)
The vehicle in which you stay dry is the high carriage.  
竿
no HSK
pole, mast, stick/club
gān
Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: dry 干 (laundry rack)
When bamboo becomes a laundry rack, you use it as a pole.  
no HSK
fierce, violent, heroic, courageous, intrepid, dauntless
hàn
Left: feelings 忄, right: drought 旱 (the sun 日 has dried 干)
(The plants are withered) The feelings at this drought are fierce.  
no HSK
traitor, adultery, wicked, crafty
jiān
Left: woman 女, right: dry 干 (laundry rack)
The woman who is conspicuously "dry" is the traitor.  
no HSK
snore, to snore
hān
Left: nose 鼻 (because of hay fever) I myself 自 in a field 田 of plants 艹 and I feel my nose.), right: dry 干 (laundry rack)
If the nose is dry, you snore.  

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