Chinese words starting with “gan”
37 words in our HSK vocabulary start with the syllable gan. They are sorted by how common they are, so the ones you are most likely to meet come first. The 15 most useful of them have their own page — they are listed first below.
Initial g · final an · hear the four tones and see example characters →
- 1st tone 12
- 3rd tone 21
- 4th tone 4
Word counts by tone are counted on the first syllable of each word.
Common words with this syllable
- 感觉gǎn juéHSK 2
feeling; impression; sensation; to feel; to perceive
- 感谢gǎn xièHSK 2
(express) thanks; gratitude; grateful; thankful; thanks
- 感到gǎn dàoHSK 2
to feel; to sense; to perceive
- 感情gǎn qíngHSK 3
emotion; sentiment; affection; feelings between two persons
- 感受gǎn shòuHSK 3
to sense; perception; to feel (through the senses); to experience; a feeling; an impression; an experience
- 赶紧gǎn jǐnHSK 3
hurriedly; without delay
- 干净gān jìngHSK 1
clean; neat
- 感动gǎn dòngHSK 2
to move (sb); to touch (sb emotionally); moving
- 干什么gàn shén meHSK 1
what are you doing?; what's he up to?
- 赶快gǎn kuàiHSK 3
quickly; at once
- 赶到gǎn dàoHSK 3
to hurry (to some place)
- 感冒gǎn màoHSK 3
to catch cold; (common) cold; (coll.) to be interested in (often used in the negative); (Tw) to detest; can't stand
- 干吗gàn máHSK 3
see 干嘛
- 干杯gān bēiHSK 2
to drink a toast; Cheers! (proposing a toast); Here's to you!; Bottoms up!; lit. dry cup
- 干活儿gàn huó rHSK 2
erhua variant of 干活; (coll.) to work; (coll.) to be employed
All 37 words
| # | Word | Pinyin | POS | Meaning | Study list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 干 | gàn | v,a | tree trunk; main part of sth; to manage; to work; to do; capable; cadre; to kill (slang); to fuck (vulgar); (coll.) pissed off; annoyed | |
| 2 | 敢 | gǎn | v,g | to dare; daring; (polite) may I venture | |
| 3 | 感 | gǎn | g | to feel; to move; to touch; to affect; feeling; emotion; (suffix) sense of ~ | |
| 4 | 感染 | gǎn rǎn | v,vn | to infect; infection; (fig.) to influence | |
| 5 | 赶 | gǎn | v | to overtake; to catch up with; to hurry; to rush; to try to catch (the bus etc); to drive (cattle etc) forward; to drive (sb) away; to avail oneself of (an opportunity); until; by (a certain time) | |
| 6 | 杆 | gān | g,q | pole | |
| 7 | 尴尬 | gān gà | a,an | awkward; embarrassed | |
| 8 | 感激 | gǎn jī | v,vn | to be grateful; to appreciate; thankful | |
| 9 | 干脆 | gān cuì | d,a | candid; direct and to the point; simply; just; might as well | |
| 10 | 干扰 | gān rǎo | v,vn | to disturb; to interfere; perturbation; interference (physics) | |
| 11 | 肝 | gān | n | liver; (slang) to put in long hours, typically late into the night, playing (a video game); (of a video game) involving a lot of repetition in order to progress; grindy | |
| 12 | 赶上 | gǎn shàng | v | to keep up with; to catch up with; to overtake; to chance upon; in time for | |
| 13 | 干涉 | gān shè | v,vn | to interfere; to meddle; interference | |
| 14 | 感人 | gǎn rén | a | touching; moving | |
| 15 | 感恩 | gǎn ēn | v | to be grateful | |
| 16 | 肝脏 | gān zàng | n | liver | |
| 17 | 干预 | gān yù | v,vn | to meddle; to intervene; intervention | |
| 18 | 干燥 | gān zào | a,an,ad | to dry (of weather, paint, cement etc); desiccation; dull; uninteresting; arid | |
| 19 | 感性 | gǎn xìng | n | perception; perceptual; sensibility; sensitive; emotional; sentimental | |
| 20 | 敢于 | gǎn yú | v | to have the courage to do sth; to dare to; bold in | |
| 21 | 赶往 | gǎn wǎng | v | to hurry to (somewhere) | |
| 22 | 感兴趣 | gǎn xìng qù | a | to be interested | |
| 23 | 感想 | gǎn xiǎng | n | impressions; reflections; thoughts | |
| 24 | 干部 | gàn bù | n | cadre; official; officer; manager | |
| 25 | 干旱 | gān hàn | an,a | drought; arid; dry | |
| 26 | 干劲 | gàn jìn | n | enthusiasm for doing sth | |
| 27 | 感触 | gǎn chù | n,v | one's thoughts and feelings; emotional stirring; moved; touched | |
| 28 | 感叹 | gǎn tàn | v,vn | to sigh (with feeling); to lament | |
| 29 | 赶不上 | gǎn bù shàng | can't keep up with; can't catch up with; cannot overtake | ||
| 30 | 甘心 | gān xīn | v | to be willing to; to resign oneself to | |
| 31 | 感染力 | gǎn rǎn lì | n | infectiousness (of a disease); appeal; power; impact (of an image, marketing message, performance etc) | |
| 32 | 干事 | gàn shi | n | administrator; executive secretary | |
| 33 | 感慨 | gǎn kǎi | v,a,an | to sigh with sorrow, regret etc; rueful; deeply moved | |
| 34 | 赶赴 | gǎn fù | v | to hurry; to rush | |
| 35 | 敢情 | gǎn qing | d | actually; as it turns out; indeed; of course | |
| 36 | 赶忙 | gǎn máng | d | to hurry; to hasten; to make haste | |
| 37 | 干戈 | gān gē | n | weapons of war; arms |
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