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幹

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Pronunciation

Peng'im: gang3
POJ: kàng
Variety: chaozhou

Meanings and usage

verb: to do, to work
幹

This character is highly polysemous (trunk/main stem, to do, to work, several vulgar senses, an interjection of dismay) all sharing the single Teochew reading gang3, with no dialect-specific sense marking to indicate which meaning is intended.

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