| 大干 | dà gàn | to go all out / to work energetically | 
| 大 | dà | big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother) | 
| 大 | dài | see 大夫 | 
| 干 | gān | old variant of 干 | 
| 干 | Gān | surname Gan | 
| 干 | gān | dry / dried food / empty; hollow / taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster / futile; in vain / (dialect) rude; blunt / (dialect) to cold-shoulder | 
| 干 | gān | variant of 干 | 
| 干 | Gān | surname Gan | 
| 干 | gān | (bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with / one of the ten heavenly stems 天干 / (archaic) shield | 
| 干 | gàn | tree trunk / main part of sth / to manage / to work / to do / capable / cadre / to kill (slang) / to fuck (vulgar) / (coll.) pissed off / annoyed |