竿 gān

1. gān noun a bamboo pole
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CCD '竿'; GHDC '竿' 1; Unihan '竿')
2. gān noun a penis
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Unihan '竿')
3. gān noun a fishing pole
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (GHDC '竿' 2)
4. gān noun a section of bamboo
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (GHDC '竿' 3)
5. gān noun staff; daṇḍa
   Domain: Buddhism 佛教
   Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: daṇḍa, Japanese: kan (BCSD '竿', p. 915; MW 'daṇḍa'; Unihan '竿')

Contained in

• 刹竿(剎竿) a pole for flying a banner
• 探竿影草 use a pole to study grass; a probe, for observation
• 竿木 a staff

Also contained in

滑竿 、 箭竿子 、 北竿 、 撑竿跳 、 叉竿 、 北竿乡 、 鱼竿 、 爬竿 、 球竿 、 竿头 、 百尺竿头 、 揭竿而起 、 揭竿起乱 、 揭竿 、 马竿 、 南竿 、 南竿乡 、 标竿 、 竿子 、 钓竿 、 百尺竿头，更尽一步 、 立竿见影 、 桅竿 、 撑竿跳高

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• Scroll 12 Dharanisamgraha Sutra (Collected Dharanis Sutra) 陀羅尼集經 — count: 8 , has English translation
• Scroll 1 Vajrasattva tells of Vinayaka Accomplishment Ritual Sutra (Jingang Saduo Shuo Pin Na Ye Jia Tian Chengjiu Yi Gui Jing) 金剛薩埵說頻那夜迦天成就儀軌經 — count: 7
• Scroll 3 Vajrasattva tells of Vinayaka Accomplishment Ritual Sutra (Jingang Saduo Shuo Pin Na Ye Jia Tian Chengjiu Yi Gui Jing) 金剛薩埵說頻那夜迦天成就儀軌經 — count: 7
• Scroll 1 Sanskrit Great Compassion Mantra (Fan Dabei Shen Zhou) 番大悲神呪 — count: 6
• Scroll 46 Abhidharmavibhāṣāśāstra (Apitan Pi Po Sha Lun) 阿毘曇毘婆沙論 — count: 6
• Scroll 1 Dharanisamgraha Sutra (Collected Dharanis Sutra) 陀羅尼集經 — count: 6 , has English translation
• Scroll 7 Mūlasarvāstivādavinayayasangraha (Genben Sapoduo Bu Lu She) 根本薩婆多部律攝 — count: 5
• Scroll 4 A Record of the Buddhist Religion as Practised in India and in the Malay Archipelago 南海寄歸內法傳 — count: 5
• Scroll 7 Vinayavastu (Genben Shuo Yiqie You Bu Pi Nai Ye Yao Shi) 根本說一切有部毘奈耶藥事 — count: 5
• Scroll 76 Fa Yuan Zhu Lin 法苑珠林 — count: 5

Collocations

• 竿上 (竿上) 懸長竹竿上 — Susiddhikara Sutra (Su Xi Di Jie Luo Jing) 蘇悉地羯羅經, Scroll 3 — count: 27
• 竹竿 (竹竿) 懸長竹竿上 — Susiddhikara Sutra (Su Xi Di Jie Luo Jing) 蘇悉地羯羅經, Scroll 3 — count: 15
• 一竿 (一竿) 日出一竿 — Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經, Scroll 3 — count: 14
• 幡竿 (幡竿) 其幡竿者端 — Guhya Sutra (Ruixiye Jing) 蕤呬耶經, Scroll 2 — count: 10
• 竿刹 (竿剎) 辣竿剎 — Sanskrit Great Compassion Mantra (Fan Dabei Shen Zhou) 番大悲神呪, Scroll 1 — count: 5
• 辣竿 (辣竿) 辣竿剎 — Sanskrit Great Compassion Mantra (Fan Dabei Shen Zhou) 番大悲神呪, Scroll 1 — count: 5
• 竿幢 (竿幢) 壇四角竪十六肘竿幢素絹帛上寫是真 — The Vajra Blazing Light Stops Rainstorms Dharani Sutra (Jingang Guang Yan Zhi Fengyu Tuoluoni Jing) 金剛光焰止風雨陀羅尼經, Scroll 1 — count: 5
• 盖竿 (蓋竿) 彼須蓋竿 — Dharmaguputakavinaya (Si Fen Lu) 四分律, Scroll 52 — count: 4
• 桁竿 (桁竿) 置在桁竿自然破壞 — Mūlasarvāstivādavinayavibhaṅga (Genben Shuo Yiqie You Bu Pi Nai Ye) 根本說一切有部毘奈耶, Scroll 20 — count: 4
• 竿等 (竿等) 安置竿等 — Mūlasarvāstivādavinayavibhaṅga (Genben Shuo Yiqie You Bu Pi Nai Ye) 根本說一切有部毘奈耶, Scroll 17 — count: 4