管
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to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about; tube; pipe; woodwind; classifier for tube-shaped objects; particle similar to 把[ba3] in 管...叫 constructions; writing brush; (coll.) to; towards
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 竹 +8
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 管
- Common rank
- #150
- Unicode
- U+7BA1
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
pipe · Heisig RSH #1042
竹 bamboo + 官 bureaucrat
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 管
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 水管工人 | plumber | |
| 电子管 | valve (electronics); vacuum tube | |
| 三不管 | of undetermined status; unregulated | |
| 水管面 | tube pasta (e.g. penne, rigatoni, ziti); macaroni | |
| 下水管 | drainpipe | |
| 人事管理 | personnel management | |
| 不管 | not to be concerned; regardless of; no matter | |
| 管子 | Guanzi or Guan Zhong 管仲 (-645 BC), famous politician of Qi 齊國|齐国 of Spring and Autumn peri… | |
| 管子 | tube; pipe; drinking straw; CL:根[gen1] | |
| 管理人 | supervisor; manager; administrator | |
| 大管 | bassoon | |
| 管子工 | plumber; pipe-fitter | |
| 管理学 | management studies | |
| 水管 | water pipe | |
| 水管工 | plumber | |
| 管城区 | Guangcheng Hui District of Zhengzhou City 鄭州市|郑州市[Zheng4 zhou1 Shi4], Henan | |
| 自来水管 | water mains; service pipe; tap-water pipe | |
| 死人不管 | (coll.) to wash one's hands of a matter | |
| 生管 | production control; production management (abbr. for 生產管理|生产管理[sheng1 chan3 guan3 li3]) | |
| 小管 | young squid (Tw) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 官 — compare how they read.