Chinese Character Wiki

稈

gǎn

straw

Dried 旱 grain stalks 禾; 旱 also provides the pronunciation

Components
禾 meaning component

禾  Meaning component

hé

  

grain stalk

旱 sound,meaning component

旱  Sound Meaning component

hàn

  

drought

Evolution

稈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
稈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
稈 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
稈 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
稈 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

秆 (稈) 

gǎn

stalk of grain; straw; stalks of grain

Most common words with 稈
Freq.
Word
Meaning

秆

stalks of grain

秸秆

straw

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4132nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

秆

Unicode

U+7A08

Shuowen

“稈，禾莖也。从禾，旱聲。《春秋傳》曰：‘或投一秉稈。’秆，稈或从干。”


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