càn

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "can"

Ligurian

Noun

càn m (plural chén, diminutive cagnétto, cagnìn, feminine càgna)

  1. Alternative spelling of can

Mandarin

Alternative forms

Romanization

càn (can4, Zhuyin ㄘㄢˋ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 叄
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 叅
  3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 孭／𱙷
  4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 掺
  5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 摻／掺
  6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 澯
  7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 燦／灿
  8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 璨
  9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 粲
  10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 薒

Tày

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *ɢaːnᴬ. Cognate with Northern Thai ᨣᩤ᩠ᨶ, Khün ᨣᩤ᩠ᨶ, Lao ຄານ (khān), Lü ᦅᦱᧃ (kaan), Shan ၵၢၼ်း (káan), Tai Nüa ᥐᥣᥢᥰ (käan), Phake ကꩫ် (kan), Ahom 𑜀𑜃𑜫 (kan), Nong Zhuang ganz, Thai คาน (kaan). Compare Middle Chinese 竿 (MC kan) or Old Chinese 竿 (OC *kaːn).

Noun

càn (杆)

  1. carrying pole
    càn háp khẩu ― rice-carrying carrying pole
  2. shaft
    càn thây ― plow shaft
    càn bết ― fishing rod
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Vietnamese càn.

Adjective

càn (乾)

  1. perverse; debauched

References

  • Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎ (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
  • Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
  • Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎ (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Verb

càn • (乾, 𠼳, 㨴, 干)

  1. (rare) to rush headlong through
  2. to raid; to mop up; to attack
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Adjective

càn • (乾, 𠼳, 㨴, 干)

  1. (of behaviour) wanton; indiscriminate; at random
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Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 乾.

Noun

càn

  1. the first trigram of the eight trigrams in Taoist cosmology
    Synonym: kiền
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