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 gān qián
 ken
 
Qian Scroll

This can be the Chinese ancient surname Gan or current surname Qian. In Japanese, it can be the surname Nukui, Susumu, Ken, Kan, Kawaki, Kawai, Inute, or Inui.

The meaning of this character varies a lot depending on context. These meanings include dry, clean, foster, adoptive, heaven, male, masculine, enduring, or continual.

The “Gan” version of this character was converted to Simplified Chinese as 干 in 1965. However, the “Qian” pronunciation is not associated with 干. Though to add to the confusion, there is an unrelated Simplified Chinese character 千 that romanizes as “Qian” and is also a surname.

Drink Up! / Cheers!

 gān bēi
 kan pai
Drink Up! / Cheers! Scroll

乾杯 is the common way to say “cheers” or give a toast in Chinese, Japanese and old Korean (written the same in all three languages, though pronounced differently).

乾杯 is an appropriate wall scroll for a bar, pub, or another drinking area.

The first character literally means “dry” or “parched.”
The second character means “cup” or “glass.”

Together the meaning is to drink up (empty your glass).

Mummy / Dried Corpse

 gān shī
Mummy / Dried Corpse Scroll

乾屍 is mummy or “dried corpse” in Chinese.

Not sure why you would want this on a wall scroll, but many people search for it here.


Not the results for 乾 that you were looking for?

Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your search...

Characters

If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese

Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition


see styles
gān
    gan1
kan
 ken
    けん

More info & calligraphy:

Qian
dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder
qian (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: heaven, northwest); (surname) Nukui
Dry, dried up, clean; heaven, male, masculine, enduring, continual. Translit. gan and h.

乾屍


干尸

see styles
gān shī
    gan1 shi1
kan shih

More info & calligraphy:

Mummy / Dried Corpse
a mummy

乾杯


干杯

see styles
gān bēi
    gan1 bei1
kan pei
 kanpai
    かんぱい

More info & calligraphy:

Drink Up! / Cheers!
to drink a toast; Cheers! (proposing a toast); Here's to you!; Bottoms up!; lit. dry cup
(noun/participle) (1) toast; drink (in celebration or in honor of something); (2) drinking one's glass dry; (interjection) (3) cheers

上乾

see styles
 ueinui / uenui
    うえいぬい
(surname) Ueinui

乾き

see styles
 kawaki
    かわき
drying; dryness

乾く

see styles
 kawaku
    かわく
(v5k,vi) to get dry

乾し

see styles
 hoshi
    ほし
(n,n-pref) drying; dried

乾す

see styles
 hosu
    ほす
(transitive verb) (1) to air; to dry; to desiccate; (2) to drain (off); (3) to drink up; (4) to deprive of a role, job, etc. (usu. in the passive)

乾一

see styles
 kenichi
    けんいち
(given name) Ken'ichi

乾三

see styles
 kenzou / kenzo
    けんぞう
(given name) Kenzou

乾中

see styles
 kannaka
    かんなか
(surname) Kannaka

乾之

see styles
 kenji
    けんじ
(personal name) Kenji

乾也

see styles
 kenya
    けんや
(personal name) Ken'ya

乾二

see styles
 kenji
    けんじ
(given name) Kenji

乾井

see styles
 inuikawa
    いぬいかわ
(surname) Inuikawa

乾亜

see styles
 kena
    けんあ
(personal name) Ken'a

乾介

see styles
 kensuke
    けんすけ
(given name) Kensuke

乾代

see styles
 kimiyo
    きみよ
(personal name) Kimiyo

乾位

see styles
 keni
    けんい
(rare) northwest

乾依

see styles
 kimie
    きみえ
(personal name) Kimie

乾修

see styles
 kanshuu / kanshu
    かんしゅう
(given name) Kanshuu

乾俸


干俸

see styles
gān fèng
    gan1 feng4
kan feng
income provided by a sinecure

乾元

see styles
 kengen
    けんげん
(hist) Kengen era (1302.11.21-1303.8.5)

乾児

see styles
 kenji
    けんじ
henchman; follower; (personal name) Kenji

乾兒


干儿

see styles
gān r
    gan1 r5
kan r
dried food

乾冰


干冰

see styles
gān bīng
    gan1 bing1
kan ping
dry ice (i.e. frozen CO2); CL:塊|块[kuai4]

乾出

see styles
 inuide
    いぬいで
(place-name) Inuide

乾分

see styles
 kobun
    こぶん
henchman; follower

乾刈

see styles
 kawagari
    かわがり
(surname) Kawagari

乾原

see styles
 inuhara
    いぬはら
(surname) Inuhara

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The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...

Title CharactersRomaji (Romanized Japanese)Various forms of Romanized Chinese
Qian
kengān qián
gan1 / qian2
gan / qian
gan/qian
kan ch`ien
kanchien
kan chien
Drink Up!
Cheers!
乾杯kan pai / kanpaigān bēi / gan1 bei1 / gan bei / ganbeikan pei / kanpei
Mummy
Dried Corpse
乾屍
干尸
gān shī / gan1 shi1 / gan shi / ganshikan shih / kanshih
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line.
In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese.


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Instead of drawing characters by hand, the new generation in China merely type roman letters into their computer keyboards and pick the character that they want from a list that pops up.

There is some fear that true Chinese calligraphy may become a lost art in the coming years. Many art institutes in China are now promoting calligraphy programs in hopes of keeping this unique form of art alive.

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A high-ranked Chinese master calligrapher that I met in Zhongwei

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