乾
gānGānqiánQián HSK1

dry

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倝 is used to represent the sound. 乙 is a distinguishing stroke.

Components

倝
倝 Sound component
乙
乙 Unknown component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartkan[k]ˤar dry
gjen[g](r)ar heaven; heavenly

說文解字

《說文》：“乾，上出也。从乙。乙，物之達也。倝聲。，籀文乾。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.959-960
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)