| 干部 | gàn bù | personnel; employees; cadre (in communist party); CL:个 |
| 干 | gān | to concern; to interfere; shield; stem; dry; clean; surname Gan |
| 干 | gàn | tree trunk; main part of sth; to manage; to work; to do; capable; cadre; to kill (slang); to fuck (vulgar) |
| 干燥 | gān zào | to dry (of weather, paint, cement etc); desiccation; dull; uninteresting; arid |
| 若干 | ruò gān | a certain number or amount; how many?; how much? |
| 干涉 | gān shè | to interfere; to meddle; interference |
| 干扰 | gān rǎo | to interfere; obstruction |
| 骨干 | gǔ gàn | diaphysis (long segment of a bone); fig. backbone |
| 干净 | gān jìng | clean; neat |
| 干什么 | gàn shén me | what are you doing?; what's he up to? |
| 干旱 | gān hàn | drought; arid; dry |
| 烘干 | hōng gān | to dry over a stove |
| 树干 | shù gàn | tree trunk |
| 干劲 | gàn jìn | enthusiasm for doing sth |
| 干脆 | gān cuì | straightforward; clear-cut; blunt (e.g. statement); you might as well; simply |
| 干活 | gàn huó | to work; to be employed; manual labor |
| 干预 | gān yù | to meddle; to intervene; intervention |
| 晒干 | shài gān | to dry in the sun |
| 能干 | néng gàn | capable; competent |
| 干吗 | gàn má | see 干嘛 |
| 干线 | gàn xiàn | main line; trunk line |
| 不干涉 | bù gān shè | noninterference; nonintervention |
| 包干 | bāo gān | an allocated task; a contractual responsibility; work that one is responsible for completing |
| 主干 | zhǔ gàn | trunk; main; core |
| 乌干达 | Wū gān dá | Uganda |
| 躯干 | qū gàn | trunk; torso |
| 干事 | gàn shi | administrator; executive secretary |
| 晾干 | liàng gān | to dry by the sun |
| 干馏 | gān liú | to carbonize; dry distillation; carbonization |
| 单干 | dān gàn | to work on one's own; to work single-handed; individual farming |
| 苦干 | kǔ gàn | to work hard |
| 不相干 | bù xiāng gān | be irrelevant; have nothing to do with |
| 才干 | cái gàn | ability; competence |
| 饼干 | bǐng gān | biscuit; cracker; cookie; CL:片,块 |
| 干枯 | gān kū | withered; dried up |
| 干校 | gàn xiào | school for cadres; May 7 Cadre School 五七干校 |
| 干粮 | gān liáng | rations (to take on expedition) |
| 相干 | xiāng gān | relevant; to have to do with; coherent (Physics: light etc) |
| 干将 | gàn jiàng | capable person |
| 干贝 | gān bèi | conpoy; dried scallop |
| 风干 | fēng gān | to air-dry; to season (timber etc); air-dried; air-drying |
| 比干 | Bǐ Gān | Bi Gan (Chinese god of wealth) |
| 埋头苦干 | mái tóu kǔ gàn | to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work; to make an all-out effort; up to the neck in work |
| 烘干机 | hōng gān jī | clothes dryer |
| 一干二净 | yī gān èr jìng | thoroughly (idiom); completely; one and all |
| 干杯 | gān bēi | to drink a toast; Cheers! (proposing a toast); Here's to you!; Bottoms up!; lit. dry cup |
| 无干 | wú gān | to have nothing to do with |
| 干渠 | gàn qú | trunk canal |
| 精干 | jīng gàn | crack (troops); special (forces); highly capable |
| 干冰 | gān bīng | dry ice (i.e. frozen CO2); CL:块 |
