Transliteration: kan
<noun> 1) "Kan" [Chinese] The name in Chinese medicine of one of the veins of the human wrist that is pressed on in order to do pulse diagnosis. Usually referred to as ཀན་རྩ་ "the Kan vein". 2) Derived from meaning 1), གུང་མོ་ the middle finger of the hand. 3) [Dialect] meaning "over there", "yonder" and with the sense of it being pointed out. E.g., [TC] རི་འགོ་ཀན་ལ་དར་དམར་ཚུགས། "erected a red flag at the bottom of the hill over there" or "...at the bottom of the far hill", "at the base of the hill, over yonder".
