汗 (hàn): sweat
汗 (hàn) is a Chinese character meaning “sweat.” Classified as HSK Level 4 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 氵 (semantic) and 干 (phonetic). It ranks #1481 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 汗 water. Its radical form 氵 (water) appears in many related characters such as 水 (shuǐ, water), 汉 (hàn, Han ethnic group), 汽 (qì, steam).
Definitions
- sweat
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 汗
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 阿富汗proper-noun | ā fù hàn | Afghanistan |
| 流汗verb | liú hàn | to sweat |
| 汗毛noun | hàn máo | hair |
| 汗衫noun | hàn shān | vest |
| 血汗noun | xuè hàn | (fig.) sweat and toil |
| 冒汗 | mào hàn | to sweat |
| 冷汗noun | lěng hàn | cold sweat |
| 可汗noun | kè hán | khan (loanword) |
| 汗流浃背phrase | hàn liú jiā bèi | to sweat profusely (idiom) |
| 大汗淋漓phrase | dà hàn lín lí | dripping with sweat |
| 血汗钱noun | xuè hàn qián | hard-earned money |
| 汗臭noun | hàn chòu | body odor |
| 成吉思汗proper-noun | chéng jí sī hán | Genghis Khan (1162-1227), founder and ruler of the Mongol Empire |
| 汗液 | hàn yè | sweat |
| 满头大汗phrase | mǎn tóu dà hàn | brow beaded with sweat |
汗 appears in 66 compound words: 41 as the first character, 36 as the last, and 23 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 汗 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (10)
merit of war; battle achievements; achievement or contribution as a result of hard work
Showing 9 of 10 idioms containing 汗.
Example Sentences
夏天的工地上，工人们满头大汗地搬运建筑材料，非常辛苦。
Xiàtiān de gōngdì shang, gōngrénmen mǎntóu dàhàn de bānyùn jiànzhù cáiliào, fēicháng xīnkǔ.
On the summer construction site, workers are sweating profusely while moving building materials, which is very hard work.
阿富汗:击落巴方战机 活捉巴基斯坦飞行员
ā fù hàn : jī luò bā fāng zhàn jī huó zhuō bā jī sī tǎn fēi háng yuán
Afghanistan: Pakistani fighter plane shot down Pakistani pilot alive
中国是否考虑从巴基斯坦、阿富汗撤侨?外交部回应
zhōng guó shì fǒu kǎo lǜ cóng bā jī sī tǎn , ā fù hàn chè qiáo ? wài jiāo bù huí yīng
Is China considering evacuating overseas Chinese from Pakistan and Afghanistan? The Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded
阿富汗政府称对巴基斯坦军事目标发起大规模报复行...
ā fù hàn zhèng fǔ chèn duì bā jī sī tǎn jūn shì mù biāo fā qǐ dà guī mó bào fù háng . . .
The Afghan government said it had launched a large-scale retaliation against Pakistani military targets...
巴基斯坦空襲阿富汗境內 阿國防部:將作出適當回應
bā jī sī tǎn kōng 襲 ā fù hàn jìng 內 ā 國 fáng bù 將 zuò chū 適 當 huí 應
Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan Afghan Ministry of Defense: Appropriate response will be made
苏联军队开始从阿富汗撤军了。
Sūlián jūnduì kāishǐ cóng āfùhàn chèjūn le.
The Soviet troops started to withdraw from Afghanistan.
他擦去了脸上的汗水。
Tā cā qù le liǎn shàng de hànshuǐ.
He wiped the sweat off his face.
我买了这件减价的汗衫。
Wǒ mǎi le zhè jiàn jiǎnjià de hànshān.
I bought this T-shirt on sale.
在大博弈期间，阿富汗是一个缓冲国。
Zài dà bóyì qījiān, āfùhàn shì yī gè huǎnchōng guó.
During the Great Game, Afghanistan was a buffer state.
她虚弱的样子让我捏了一把汗。
Tā xūruò de yàngzi ràng wǒ niē le yī bǎ hàn.
It worried me that she looked pale.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 氵 (water) component
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