cán

• can — nonstandard

cán (can², Zhuyin ㄘㄢˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嬠
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嬱
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 慙／惭, 慚／惭
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 殘／残
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 淺／浅
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蚎
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蝅
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蠶／蚕
9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蠺
10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蚕

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [kaːn˧˥]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [kaːn˦]

cán

1. spotted; brindled

From Chinese 幹／干.

cán (干)

1. stem; trunk

• Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[1] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
• Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎^[2] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kaːn˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kaːŋ˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kaːŋ˦˥]

(classifier cây, cái) cán • (桿)

1. a handle; grip; staff; lever (especially of a tool)
   • 1957, Đoàn Giỏi, chapter 3, in Đất rừng phương Nam, Kim Đồng:

     Cầm chặt cán dao trong tay, tôi bỗng thấy người mình như cao lớn hắn lên; […]

     Firmly holding the handle of the knife in my hand, I suddenly felt as if I were much taller; […]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 擀.

cán

1. to flatten; to crush (especially with rolling cylindrical objects)
2. (figurative) to run over (with a vehicle)

   ...bị xe cán. ― ...got run over by a car.

Sino-Vietnamese word from 幹.

cán

1. (only in compounds) to work; to manage; to be capable

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