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咁

gān

Character

What 咁 means

1. so (Cantonese)
2. Mandarin equivalent: {这样|zhè yàng}

Sounds the same

Read gān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 干dry; dried food; empty; hollow
• 甘(bound form) sweet; pleasant (contrasted with 苦; to be willing (to do sth)
• 尴used in 尴尬
• 肝liver; (slang) to put in long hours, typically late into the night, playing…
• 杆(bound form) pole; shaft
• 竿(bound form) pole; rod
• 柑large tangerine
• 苷licorice; glycoside
• 酐anhydride
• 坩crucible
• 矸used in 矸石
• 泔slop from rinsing rice

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