gan3靳
Jyutpinggan3
Yalegan
Definition
A Chinese surname.
neutralpeople
How it's used
This character is almost exclusively encountered as a surname in Hong Kong. It is not used in any common vocabulary or daily expressions outside of identifying someone by their family name.
Examples
That Mr. Gan seems to have moved to live somewhere else.
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Classifier
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Grammar guides
- QuestionsFrom yes or no questions to asking who, what, where, and when. The patterns you need to ask questions naturally in Cantonese.
- ClassifiersCantonese puts a classifier between a number and a noun, and a bare classifier on its own can mean the. Learn the common ones and how to use them.
- ComparisonsHow to say bigger than, the most, the same as, and not as good as. Cantonese uses 過 where Mandarin uses 比, and that catches a lot of learners out.
