乾

Related characters

 * ( when used as an adjective in Chinese)

Glyph origin
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Etymology 1
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

The sense “lacking sweetness” is a or.

Definitions

 * 1) dry; moistureless; waterless; arid
 * 2) to dry; to exhaust
 * 3)  to neglect; to snub
 * 4)  to drain one's glass; bottoms up
 * 5) dried up; exhausted; drained
 * 6)  dry and coarse
 * 7) dried-up food
 * 8) adopted; adoptive; foster
 * 9) in vain; for nothing
 * 10) falsely; superficially
 * 11) not sweet; lacking sweetness
 * 1) falsely; superficially
 * 2) not sweet; lacking sweetness

Etymology 2
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, and  🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 1) first of the eight trigrams (bagua) used in Taoist cosmology, represented by the symbol ☰
 * 2) first hexagram of the I Ching, represented by the symbol ䷀
 * 3)   sky; heaven
 * 4)   emperor; monarch
 * 5)   sun
 * 6)   northwest
 * 7)   man; male
 * 1)   man; male

Kanji

 * 1) northwest
 * 2) dehydrate
 * 3) arid
 * 4) drought
 * 5) imbibe
 * 6) paradise
 * 7) the emperor

Etymology 1
From.

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Noun

 * 1)  northwest

Etymology 2
From.

Affix

 * 1) dry

Etymology 3
From.

Affix

 * 1) the sky

Etymology 1
From.

Hanja

 * : earth
 * : earth
 * : earth

Etymology 2
From a corrupted or unorthodox reading. The original reading is based on Middle Chinese.

Hanja

 * : wet
 * : wet

Usage notes
[*] Decimal pair = Binary pair (Codepoint). (The solid bar "—" of the Trigrams may be assigned to the binary number "1", while the split bar "--" to "0".) 