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Kanji Detail for 乾 - "dry, heaven, strong"
乾
- Meaning
乾 means "dry, heaven, strong."
Dry - To dry out; to make dry; to lose moisture.
Superficial - On the surface; outward.
Heaven - A symbol of heaven, the emperor, lord, or masculinity.
Strong - Healthy; robust; vigorous.
Northwest - The northwest direction.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
drought; dry; desiccate; drink up; heaven; emperor
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
dry; warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male); trigram ☰; hexagram ䷀
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
old variant of 乾[qian2]
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
arid, dry; to fertilize; to penetrate; heavenly generative principle (male)
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
The first of the Eight Trigrams. Symbolizing heaven and ruler. Hence celestial phenomena are called 乾象, imperial authority called 乾綱. | The Qian hexagram has three yang lines. Hence used to symbolize males. Such as colloquially saying 乾造 (male horoscope), 乾宅 (male residence). | Dry. Such as 乾柴烈火 (dry wood and fierce fire). | Depleted. Such as 外彊中乾, meaning strong outside but lacking inside. | Having the name without the substance, colloquially all called 乾. Such as 乾爺 (nominal father), 乾娘 (nominal mother), 乾脩 (nominal salary), 乾館 (nominal position).
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