Chinese Character Wiki

淦

gàn

river in Jiangxi province

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

water

金 sound component

金  Sound component

jīn

  

metal

Evolution

淦 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
淦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
淦 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

淦  

gàn

river in Jiangxi province; water leaking into a boat; name of a river

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4611th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+6DE6

Shuowen

“淦，水入船中也。一曰泥也。从水，金聲。汵，淦或从今。”


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