Definitions

gān slop from rinsing rice

Etymology

Sweet  water  also provides the pronunciation

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combines the water radical with ('sweet'), which also provides the pronunciation. It denotes the starchy, cloudy water left after washing rice, and by extension kitchen slops or swill, and appears almost exclusively in the compound 泔水.

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Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
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Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
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Seal Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
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Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
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