| | dry / dried food / empty; hollow / taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster / futile; in vain / (dialect) rude; blunt / (dialect) to cold-shoulder | HSK 1 |
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| | loose / to loosen / to relax / floss (dry, fluffy food product made from shredded, seasoned meat or fish, used as a topping or filling) | HSK 4 |
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| | to drink a toast / Cheers! (proposing a toast) / Here's to you! / Bottoms up! / lit. dry cup | HSK 2 |
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| | (of the sun) to shine on / to bask in (the sunshine) / to dry (clothes, grain etc) in the sun / (fig.) to expose and share (one's experiences and thoughts) on the Web (loanword from "share") / (coll.) to give the cold shoulder to | HSK 4 |
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| | to ascend; to rise / to promote; to elevate / liter / unit of dry measure for grain (= one liter or one-tenth dou 斗) | HSK 3 |
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| | steamed bun with sweetened bean paste filling / (Tw) beancurd skin sheet folded into a small square packet shape then dried | |
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| | dry land (as opposed to the sea) | HSK 4 |
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| | uncomfortably hot and dry; stiflingly hot; (of the body) flushed and feverishly warm; (fig.) agitated; restless; irritable; (TCM) dry-heat | |
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| | to be in the sun (getting warm or sunbathing etc) / to put sth in the sun (e.g. to dry it) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (fig.) to squeeze dry; to exhaust | |
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| | dry cell (battery) | |
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| | European plum (Prunus domestica), esp. prune plum / prune; dried prune | |
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| | dried meat; jerky | |
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| | dried fish | |
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| | to plan a military mission on a sand table (idiom) / to rehearse a planned action or activity / to conduct a dry run | |
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| | 100 ml / one-tenth of a peck / measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗 | |
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| | dried longan pulp | |
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| | (zoology) sea sponge / (esp.) dried sea sponge / sponge (made from polyester or cellulose etc) / foam rubber | HSK 7-9 |
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| | dry; parched / impatient; vexed / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [sao4]) minced meat | |
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| | drought / (of land, climate etc) arid; dry | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to dry over a stove | HSK 7-9 |
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| | dried food (including dried fruits, mushrooms and seafoods such as shrimp and abalone) / (fig.) (coll.) knowledge presented in readily assimilable form; just what you want to know: no more, no less (no padding 水分) | |
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| | (of weather, climate, soil etc) dry; arid / (of skin, mouth etc) dry / (fig.) dull; dry; boring / (of timber etc) to dry out; to season; to cure | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much | |
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| | lit. to fish for three days and sun-dry the nets for two days (proverb) / fig. not to persevere in doing sth / to do sth by fits and starts | |
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| | lit. smell of breast milk not yet dried (idiom) / fig. immature and inexperienced; still wet behind the ears | |
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| | to let the wind blow on oneself; to be exposed to the wind; to air out (a room); to blow air (e.g. to dry one's hair) / (fig.) to brief sb informally; to leak or hint at information ahead of formal release | |
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| | conpoy; dried scallop (dried adductor muscle of a scallop) | |
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| | to dry clean / dry cleaning | |
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| | pressed tofu; dried tofu (ingredient of Chinese cuisine made by pressing, drying and flavoring tofu to produce a firm chewy block, typically cut into thin strips when preparing a dish) | |
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| | dry rations | |
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| | to reconstitute (dried mushrooms, seaweed etc) | |
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| | meat that has been cured and air-dried in the cold (esp. during the 12th lunar month) | |
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| | dry and dull; uninteresting; tedious | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to cure by drying over a fire (tea, meat etc) / to bake | |
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| | dried beef; beef jerky | |
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| | pressed (dried) salted duck | |
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| | mullet roe (salted and dried) / bottarga | |
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| | (medicine) xerophthalmia; dry eye syndrome | |
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| | dry and rough (skin) / hoarse (voice) / dry and heavy (style) | |
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| | dried out / wizened / shriveled | |
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| | dried ginger | |
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| | to dry (sth) by airing | |
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| | katsuobushi or dried bonito flakes (paper-thin shavings of preserved skipjack tuna) | |
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| | to remove excess moisture by spinning; to put (clothes) through the spin cycle; to spin-dry | |
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| | dried persimmon | |
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| | pole for punting boats / pole for drying clothes in the sun | |
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| | black atractylodes rhizome (dried rhizome of any of several atractylodes species) (TCM) | |
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| | parched / dry mouth | |
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| | dry powder | |
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| | dried leaf | |
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| | liter and decaliter dry measure / (fig.) meager quantity of foodstuff | |
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| | to wipe dry | |
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| | unprocessed sun-dried tea leaves used to make black or green tea | |
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| | to dry over a fire / to roast | |
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| | to blow-dry | |
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| | to sauté / to fry / to dry by heating | |
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| | dry measure for grain equal to ten dou 斗; one hundred liters / ancient pr. [shi2] | |
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| | dry ice (i.e. frozen CO2) / CL: 塊|块 | |
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| | shampoo, haircut and blow-dry | |
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| | raisin / dried grape | |
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| | dried tangerine peel (used in cuisine and traditional Chinese medicine) | |
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| | to dry out / to extract water / dehydration / dehydrated / desiccation | |
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| | farm / feed lot / dry lot | |
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| | prohibition / ban on alcohol / dry law | |
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| | big piece of meat / dried meat | |
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| | (dialect) to dry (sth) in the sun; to dry (sth) in the air | |
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| | dried food | |
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| | dried vegetable | |
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| | (of dry soil etc) to crack; (of skin) to chap | |
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| | sun-dried mudbrick; adobe brick | |
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| | to rake in (money); to plunder; to milk people dry | |
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| | withered grass; dry grass | |
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| | salt-pickled sun-dried cabbage (or potherb mustard etc) | |
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| | (dialect) to dry by a fire | |
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| | meat floss / shredded dried pork | |
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| | small dried shrimp | |
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| | magnesium powder (used in pyrotechnics etc) / (sports) gym chalk (magnesium carbonate), used as a drying agent on the hands of gymnasts, weight lifters etc | |
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| | dried fruit of immature citron or trifoliate orange (used in TCM) | |
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| | to select sb for a position without announcing the decision until later / to decide behind closed doors / all cut and dried | |
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| | withered; shriveled; dried-up | |
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| | dry and clean / clear and fresh | |
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| | used up / dried up / exhausted (of resources) | |
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| | to dry over a fire / to bake | |
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| | dry terrain | |
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| | sleep (dried mucus in the corner of the eye) | |
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| | dried meat / preserved fruit | |
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| | small shrimp; dried, shelled shrimps / (Tw) (coll.) what (from Taiwanese 啥物, Tai-lo pr. [siánn-mih], equivalent to Mandarin 什麼|什么) | |
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| | dried oyster meat | |
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| | to air-dry / to season (timber etc) / air-dried / air-drying | |
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| | (dialect) sleep (dried mucus in the corner of the eye) | |
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| | rolls of dried soymilk cream (used in cooking after being rehydrated) | |
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| | dried shrimps | |
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| | tofu skin (made by drying the skin that forms on the surface of soymilk during cooking, and therefore not actually made from tofu) | |
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| | to dry up | |
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| | preserved dried cabbage or mustard greens | |
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| | to cough without phlegm / a dry cough | |
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| | used in Japanese names with phonetic value hatake, bata etc / dry field (i.e. not paddy field) | |
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| | dried persimmon (from Geng village, Heze 荷澤|荷泽, Shandong) | |
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| | (lit.) to live on dry provisions and wild herbs (idiom) / (fig.) to live in abject poverty | |
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