The characters 幹 and 乾 and 干 First of all, I have mostly learned speaking and listening using nonstandard phonetics, not reading/writing. Let me get this correct. With pinyin gan 干=to do, dry, tree trunk in simplified. 干=dry, tree trunk in traditional. 幹=to do, only traditional. 乾=to do, only traditional. What's the difference between 幹 and 乾? With pinyin qian 乾 = only for Qianlong's name, simplified and traditional The other two don't have this pronunciation. Correct?