桿
gǎngān HSK6

pole

杆 桿 gǎn frequency
pole (gǎn) noun
stick; pole; rod; lever; any shaft-like part of an object

我的腿里有根金属杆。

wǒ​de tuǐ li yǒu gēn jīn​shǔ gǎn.

I have a metal rod in my leg.

[for shafted objects]
Used for long objects with a shaft, such as guns or scales.
杆 gān
variant 桿
pole (gān) noun
pole; staff; long cylindrical rod
杆 桿 gān
stalk
stalk of certain plants, such as sorghum or sunflower
railing
railing; banister; horizontal bar

Cross-References

Classifier

Same as

Has erhua variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,011th most common 35.9 per million
Movie subtitles
1,792nd most common 27.8 per million appears in 11% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
22.8 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
58.8 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Simplified
杆
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+687F

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)