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Variants
Phonetic
Semantic
Apparent
干 倝 乙 ⿸⿰𠦝𠂉乙
Mandarin
qian2, gan1
English
Definitions
dry; male; strong; surname; first hexagram; heavenly generative principle (male); one of Eight Trigrams; penetrating and fertilizing; warming principle of the sun
Mnemonic
Dry 倝 (original meaning) with sun rays interpreted as 乙