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Mythic Mandarin

干活 (gàn huó): meaning and stroke order

干活 (gàn huó) means to work; to be employed.

干活

Simplified
干活
Traditional
幹活
Pinyin
gàn huó

Stroke order of 干活

干

  • gān old variant of 乾|干[gan1]
  • Gān surname Gan
  • gān dry; dried food
  • 3 strokes
  • Traditional form: 乹

Stroke by stroke

活

  • huó to live; alive
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 干活

  1. gàn huó Traditional 幹活
    • to work; to be employed

Radicals of the characters

干
Radical 干 (Kangxi radical 51) · 3 strokes · 一 on top, 十 below
活
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 9 strokes · 氵 on the left, 舌 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

干活 in our stories

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  • 从前，有一个年轻的农民，家里很穷，每天一个人在田里干活。

    cóngqián yǒu yí gè niánqīng de nóngmín jiāli hěn qióng měitiān yí gè rén zài tián lǐ gànhuó

    Once upon a time there was a young farmer. He was very poor and worked alone in the fields every day.

    From the story The river-snail girl HSK 4

  • 他想，反正也没时间拍视频了，干脆一边干活一边直播，就把手机支在了厨房的角落里。

    tā xiǎng fǎnzhèng yě méi shíjiān pāi shìpín le gāncuì yìbiān gànhuó yìbiān zhíbō jiù bǎ shǒujī zhī zài le chúfáng de jiǎoluò lǐ

    He thought that since he had no time to film anyway, he might as well livestream while he worked, so he propped his phone up in a corner of the kitchen.

    From the story Pulling noodles is a workout too HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 干活

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).