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kān

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kān Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
kān | kan1
English translation
to print
to publish
publication
periodical
to peel with a knife
to carve
to amend
old variant of kān [kān]
publication, periodical; to publish, to print

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About kān

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Number of strokes

5

Traditional form

kān

Contains the radical

dāo

Part of speech

Status morpheme / 状态语素 Zhuàngtài yǔsù

Learning hint

knife

Etymology of kān

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

干刂

Semantic compound

dāo

Phonetic compound

gān

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. dāo represents the meaning and gān represents the sound. Simplified form of .

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Example sentences using kān

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报纸 bàozhǐ yòng liǎng 版面 bǎn miàn lái 刊登 kāndēng 漫画 mànhuà .

The newspaper devotes two pages to comics.

jiāng Néng 得到 dé dào de 期刊 qī kān gěi .

I'll send you all the periodicals available.

zhè piān 短篇小说 duǎn piān xiǎo shuō yóu liǎng zhǒng 著名 zhùmíng de 杂志 zázhì 刊出.

This short story was published by two journals of repute.

该报每周 měi zhōu 刊登 kāndēng piān 关于 guānyú 一名优秀 yōuxiù 运动员 yùn dòng yuán de 简介 jiǎn jiè .

The newspaper publishes a profile of a leading sportsman every week.

杂志 zázhì chú 文学 wénxué 作品 zuòpǐn wài ,刊登 kāndēng 文学史 wén xué shǐ 方面 fāngmiàn de 内容 nèiróng .

So Rabassa tried his hand , and the rest is literary history.

Words with kān

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
刊登 kāndēng to carry a story刊登 kāndēng
周刊 zhōu kān weekly週刊
kān to print kān
期刊 qī kān periodical期刊 qī kān
报刊 bào kān the press報刊
刊物 kānwù publication刊物 kānwù
书刊 shū kān books and publications書刊
月刊 yuè kān monthly magazine月刊 yuè kān
特刊 tè kān special edition (of magazine)特刊 tè kān
刊载 kān zǎi to publish刊載
季刊 jì kān quarterly publication季刊 jì kān
创刊 chuàng kān to start publishing創刊
校刊 xiào kān school magazine校刊 xiào kān
增刊 zēng kān additional publication增刊 zēng kān
副刊 fù kān supplement副刊 fù kān
创刊号 chuàng kān hào first issue創刊號
刊印 kān yìn to diffuse刊印 kān yìn
半月刊 bàn yuè kān fortnightly半月刊 bàn yuè kān
刊号 kān hào number刊號

kān Decomposition & Compounds

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kān Decomposition

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