干

Traditional form:

乾

Pinyin (reading):

gān

Definitions:

• dry
• dried food
• empty; hollow
• taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster
• futile; in vain
• (dialect) rude; blunt
• (dialect) to cold-shoulder

Characters:

• 干 - arid, dry; to oppose; to offend; to invade

Traditional characters:

• 乾 - arid, dry; to fertilize; to penetrate; heavenly generative principle (male)