乾竭

Chinese

		dry; clean; male dry; clean; male; strong; one of the Eight Trigrams; surname	exhaust
trad. (乾竭)		乾	竭
simp. (干竭)		干	竭

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gānjié

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄢ ㄐㄧㄝˊ

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kan-kia̍t

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gānjié
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄢ ㄐㄧㄝˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ganjié
    • Wade–Giles: kan¹-chieh²
    • Yale: gān-jyé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ganjye
    • Palladius: ганьцзе (ganʹcze)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kän⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɛ³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kan-kia̍t
    • Tâi-lô: kan-kia̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kankiat
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kan⁴⁴⁻²² kiɛt̚⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /kan⁴⁴⁻³³ kiɛt̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kan⁴⁴⁻²² kiɛt̚¹²¹/

Adjective

乾竭

1. (Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) infertile; barren (of land)

Synonyms

• 貧瘠／贫瘠 (pínjí)
• (Hokkien, Teochew) 竭