HSK 6 · Verbs

干预 gānyù “to intervene” in Chinese

Traditional 干預

What 干预 means

  1. to intervene
  2. to interfere
  3. intervention
  4. to meddle

How to say 干预

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale干gān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale预yù4th tone, falling

干预 in a sentence

  1. 不要干预不关你的事!

    Búyào gānyù bù guān nǐ de shì!

    Don’t meddle in things that are none of your business!

    Sentence #785227 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 干预 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 干 (gān) with each of its parts in a different colour
干gāndry
  • 一one · yī
  • 十ten · shí

Memory aidDrawn from a forked stick used as a weapon or shield. As a simplified character it also stands for 乾 “dry” and 幹 “to do”.

The character 预 (yù) with each of its parts in a different colour
预yùto advance
  • 予to give · yúSound part
  • 页page · xiéMeaning part

页 hints at the meaning (page); 予 (yú) hints at the sound. Compare it with yù.

How to write 干预

干 3 strokes · 预 10 strokes

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干预 (gānyù) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 干预 (gānyù). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 干预

Words with 干

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FAQs

干预 (gānyù) means “to intervene” or “to interfere”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it gānyù: gān with a 1st tone, then yù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 干预 is written 干預. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type ganyu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 干预 from the suggestions. Typing ganyu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
干预 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.