Pinyin: gàn

to do

Example sentence

你在干什么呢?

Nǐ zài gàn shénme ne?

What are you doing?

What 干 means

(gàn) is a Chinese word meaning “to do”. It belongs to the Daily Actions topic and appears at HSK 4, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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