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gān

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gān Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
gān | gan1
English translation
licorice

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About gān

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Number of strokes

8

Traditional form

gān

Contains the radical

cǎo

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

Learning hint

A sweet  Gān plant  cǎo Gān also provides the pronunciation

Etymology of gān

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

艹甘

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Example sentences using gān

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zài 哺乳动物 bǔ rǔ dòng wù 细胞 xìbāo Zhōng nǎo lín zhī 神经节 gān zhī 可能 kěnéng 执行 zhíxíng 同样 tóng yàng de 功能 gōngnéng .

Those in mammalian cells, the cerebrosides and gangliosides, may perform similar functions.

de : 探索 tànsuǒ 消石利胆 wán Zhōng 黄芩 gān de 定量 dìng liàng 方法 fāngfǎ .

Objective : To explore the quantitative method for Baicalin in Xiaoshilidan Pills.

Words with gān

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
gān licorice gān
核苷酸 hé gān suān nucleotide核苷酸 hé gān suān
腺苷 xiàn gān adenosine腺苷 xiàn gān
核苷 hé gān nucleoside核苷 hé gān
糖苷 táng gān glucoside糖苷 táng gān

gān Decomposition & Compounds

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