幹
gànhán HSK1

trunk

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干

Both 倝 and 干 serve as sound components.

Components

倝
倝 Sound component
干
干 Sound component

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
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-SagartkanH[k]ˤar-s stem; framework

說文解字

《說文》：“榦，築牆耑木也。从木，倝聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)