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天干
tiāngān
Main
English Definitionthe 10 heavenly stems 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸, used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
Simplified Script天干
Traditional ScriptSame
Pinyintiāngān
Effective Pinyin
(After Tone Sandhi)		Same
Zhuyin (Bopomofo)ㄊㄧㄢ ㄍㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping)tin1gon1
Word Decomposition
天tiānday; sky; heaven
干gānto concern; to interfere; shield; stem

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Words With Same Head Word    
天恩祖德tiān ēn zǔ déimperial grace and benevolence from the ancestors
天气tiānqìweather
天天tiāntiānevery day
天下tiānxiàland under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule
天堂tiāntángparadise; heaven
Words With Same Tail Word    
若干ruògāna certain number or amount; how many?; how much?
不相干bù xiānggānto be irrelevant; to have nothing to do with
相干xiānggānrelevant; to have to do with; coherent (Physics: light etc)
何干hégānwhat business?
塔什干tǎ shí gānTashkent, capital of Uzbekistan
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