干
Meaning
- dry
- dried food
- empty; hollow
Example sentence
我爱树干。
I love the trunk.
The character 干
干 does two jobs under two tones. As gān it is dry — 干净 clean, 干杯 dry the glass, a toast. As gàn it is to do — 干活儿 to work, 干什么 what are you up to. Nothing in the writing tells them apart.