| 五七干校 | wǔ qī gàn xiào | May 7 Cadre School (forcing educated people into re-education and peasant labor during Cultural Revolution); abbr. for 五七干部学校 |
| 五七干部学校 | wǔ qī gàn bù xué xiào | May 7 Cadre School (forcing educated people into re-education and peasant labor during Cultural Revolution); abbr. 五七干校 |
| 何干 | hé gān | what business? |
| 公干 | gōng gàn | public business; official work |
| 包干儿 | bāo gānr | an allocated task; a contractual responsibility; work that one is responsible for completing |
| 包干制 | bāo gān zhì | a system of payment partly in kind and partly in cash |
| 十天干 | shí tiān gān | the 10 heavenly stems 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III) |
| 十干 | shí gān | same as 天干; the 10 heavenly stems 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III) |
| 口干舌燥 | kǒu gān shé zào | lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much |
| 吹干 | chuī gān | to blow-dry |
| 唾面自干 | tuò miàn zì gān | to be spat on in the face and let it dry by itself, not wiping it off (idiom); to turn the other cheek; to drain the cup of humiliation |
| 嗜酸乳干菌 | shì suān rǔ gān jūn | Lactobacillus acidophilus |
| 塔什干 | Tǎ shí gān | Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan |
塔什库尔干塔吉克
自治县 | Tǎ shí kù ěr gān Tǎ jí kè zì zhì xiàn | Taxkorgan Tajik autonomous county (Tashqurqan Tajik aptonom nahiyisi) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地区, west Xinjiang |
| 塔什库尔干自治县 | Tǎ shí kù ěr gān zì zhì xiàn | Taxkorgan Tajik autonomous county (Tashqurqan Tajik aptonom nahiyisi) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地区, west Xinjiang |
| 塔什库尔干乡 | Tǎ shí kù ěr gān xiāng | Taxkorgan township in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地区, west Xinjiang |
| 塔克拉玛干 | Tǎ kè lā mǎ gàn | Taklaman desert in Xinjiang |
| 塔克拉玛干沙漠 | Tǎ kè lā mǎ gān shā mò | Taklamakan (desert in Central Asia) |
| 塔克拉马干 | tǎ kè lā mǎ gān | Taklamakan (desert) |
| 大便干燥 | dà biàn gān zào | constipated |
| 大溪豆干 | dà xī dòu gān | Tahsi or Dasi dried dofu, Taiwanese Taoyuan speciality |
| 太阳照在桑干河上 | Tài yáng Zhào Zài Sāng gān Hé Shàng | The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River, proletarian novel by Ding Ling, winner of 1951 Stalin prize |
| 奴儿干 | Nú ér gān | part of Heilongjiang and the Vladivostok area ruled by the Ming dynasty |
| 奴儿干都司 | Nú ér gān dū sī | the Ming dynasty provincial headquarters in the Heilongjiang and Vladivostok area |
| 实干家 | shí gàn jiā | practical person; constructive person |
| 审干 | shěn gàn | to examine the cadres; same as 审查干部 |
| 射干 | shè gān | blackberry lily (Belamcanda chinensis); leopard lily |
| 射频干扰 | shè pín gān rǎo | radio interference; RF interference |
| 对着干 | duì zhe gàn | to adopt confrontational posture; to meet head-on; to compete |
| 巴尔干半岛 | Bā ěr gān Bàn dǎo | Balkan Peninsula |
| 巴马干酪 | Bā mǎ gān lào | Parmesan cheese |
| 布干维尔 | bù gān wéi ěr | Bougainville, Papua New Guinea |
| 布干维尔岛 | Bù gān wéi ěr dǎo | Bougainville island, Papua New Guinea |
| 干休 | gān xiū | to let matters rest |
| 干系 | gān xì | responsibility |
| 干扁豆角 | gān biǎn dòu jiǎo | green beans in sauce, popular Beijing dish |
| 干挠 | gān náo | variant of 干扰, to interfere |
| 干扰素 | gān rǎo sù | interferon |
| 干涉仪 | gān shè yí | interferometer (physics) |
| 干与 | gān yù | variant of 干预 |
| 干证 | gān zhèng | witness (in a law suit) |
| 干邑 | Gān yì | Cognac; brandy 白兰地 from the Cognac region of southwest France |
| 干事长 | gàn shi zhǎng | secretary general |
| 干仗 | gàn zhàng | to quarrel (dialect) |
| 干啥 | gàn shá | do what? |
| 干嘛 | gàn má | what are you doing?; whatever for?; why on earth? |
| 干才 | gàn cái | ability; capable |
| 干材 | gàn cái | ability; capable |
| 干活儿 | gàn huór | to work; manual labor |
| 干细胞 | gàn xì bāo | stem cell |
