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  *干* | 干* | *干
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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  *松* | 松* | *松
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
to drink a toast / Cheers! (proposing a toast) / Here's to you! / Bottoms up! / lit. dry cup
HSK 2
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  *晒* | 晒* | *晒
(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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  *升* | 升* | *升
to ascend; to rise / to promote; to elevate / liter / unit of dry measure for grain (= one liter or one-tenth dou )
HSK 3
steamed bun with sweetened bean paste filling / (Tw) beancurd skin sheet folded into a small square packet shape then dried
dry land (as opposed to the sea)
HSK 4
uncomfortably hot and dry; stiflingly hot; (of the body) flushed and feverishly warm; (fig.) agitated; restless; irritable; (TCM) dry-heat
to be in the sun (getting warm or sunbathing etc) / to put sth in the sun (e.g. to dry it)
HSK 7-9
(fig.) to squeeze dry; to exhaust
dry cell (battery)
European plum (Prunus domestica), esp. prune plum / prune; dried prune
dried meat; jerky
dried fish
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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  *合* | 合* | *合
100 ml / one-tenth of a peck / measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng or liter, or one-hundredth dou
dried longan pulp
(zoology) sea sponge / (esp.) dried sea sponge / sponge (made from polyester or cellulose etc) / foam rubber
HSK 7-9
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  *燥* | 燥* | *燥
dry; parched / impatient; vexed / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [sao4]) minced meat
drought / (of land, climate etc) arid; dry
HSK 7-9
to dry over a stove
HSK 7-9
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)
(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
lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much
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
lit. smell of breast milk not yet dried (idiom) / fig. immature and inexperienced; still wet behind the ears
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
conpoy; dried scallop (dried adductor muscle of a scallop)
to dry clean / dry cleaning
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)
dry rations
to reconstitute (dried mushrooms, seaweed etc)
meat that has been cured and air-dried in the cold (esp. during the 12th lunar month)
dry and dull; uninteresting; tedious
HSK 7-9
to cure by drying over a fire (tea, meat etc) / to bake
dried beef; beef jerky
pressed (dried) salted duck
mullet roe (salted and dried) / bottarga
(medicine) xerophthalmia; dry eye syndrome
dry and rough (skin) / hoarse (voice) / dry and heavy (style)
dried out / wizened / shriveled
dried ginger
to dry (sth) by airing
katsuobushi or dried bonito flakes (paper-thin shavings of preserved skipjack tuna)
to remove excess moisture by spinning; to put (clothes) through the spin cycle; to spin-dry
dried persimmon
pole for punting boats / pole for drying clothes in the sun
black atractylodes rhizome (dried rhizome of any of several atractylodes species) (TCM)
parched / dry mouth
dry powder
dried leaf
liter and decaliter dry measure / (fig.) meager quantity of foodstuff
to wipe dry
unprocessed sun-dried tea leaves used to make black or green tea
to dry over a fire / to roast
to blow-dry
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  *炮* | 炮* | *炮
to sauté / to fry / to dry by heating
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  *石* | 石* | *石
dry measure for grain equal to ten dou ; one hundred liters / ancient pr. [shi2]
dry ice (i.e. frozen CO2) / CL: 塊|块
shampoo, haircut and blow-dry
raisin / dried grape
dried tangerine peel (used in cuisine and traditional Chinese medicine)
to dry out / to extract water / dehydration / dehydrated / desiccation
farm / feed lot / dry lot
prohibition / ban on alcohol / dry law
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  *膴* | 膴* | *膴
big piece of meat / dried meat
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  *㫰* | 㫰* | *㫰
(dialect) to dry (sth) in the sun; to dry (sth) in the air
dried food
dried vegetable
(of dry soil etc) to crack; (of skin) to chap
sun-dried mudbrick; adobe brick
to rake in (money); to plunder; to milk people dry
withered grass; dry grass
salt-pickled sun-dried cabbage (or potherb mustard etc)
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  *煏* | 煏* | *煏
(dialect) to dry by a fire
meat floss / shredded dried pork
small dried shrimp
magnesium powder (used in pyrotechnics etc) / (sports) gym chalk (magnesium carbonate), used as a drying agent on the hands of gymnasts, weight lifters etc
dried fruit of immature citron or trifoliate orange (used in TCM)
to select sb for a position without announcing the decision until later / to decide behind closed doors / all cut and dried
withered; shriveled; dried-up
dry and clean / clear and fresh
used up / dried up / exhausted (of resources)
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  *焙* | 焙* | *焙
to dry over a fire / to bake
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  *垲* | 垲* | *垲
dry terrain
sleep (dried mucus in the corner of the eye)
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  *脯* | 脯* | *脯
dried meat / preserved fruit
small shrimp; dried, shelled shrimps / (Tw) (coll.) what (from Taiwanese 啥物, Tai-lo pr. [siánn-mih], equivalent to Mandarin 什麼|什么)
dried oyster meat
to air-dry / to season (timber etc) / air-dried / air-drying
(dialect) sleep (dried mucus in the corner of the eye)
rolls of dried soymilk cream (used in cooking after being rehydrated)
dried shrimps
tofu skin (made by drying the skin that forms on the surface of soymilk during cooking, and therefore not actually made from tofu)
to dry up
preserved dried cabbage or mustard greens
to cough without phlegm / a dry cough
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  *畑* | 畑* | *畑
used in Japanese names with phonetic value hatake, bata etc / dry field (i.e. not paddy field)
dried persimmon (from Geng village, Heze 荷澤|荷泽, Shandong)
(lit.) to live on dry provisions and wild herbs (idiom) / (fig.) to live in abject poverty

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