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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
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clean / neat
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to drink a toast / Cheers! (proposing a toast) / Here's to you! / Bottoms up! / lit. dry cup
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biscuit; cracker; cookie / CL: , 塊|块
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candid / direct and to the point / simply / just / might as well
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drought / arid / dry
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to dry over a stove
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thoroughly (idiom) / completely / one and all / very clean
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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
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  *干* | 干* | *干
surname Gan
yin and yang; heaven and earth; the universe
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 水分)
dry and rough (skin) / hoarse (voice) / dry and heavy (style)
dry eye / xerophthalmia (drying of the tear glands, often due to lack of vitamin A)
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  *乾* | 乾* | *乾
surname Qian
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  *乾* | 乾* | *乾
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing heaven / male principle // ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest)
to dry in the sun
dry / parched / dull / insipid
Qianlong Emperor (1711-1799), sixth Qing emperor, princely title 寶親王|宝亲王, personal name 弘曆|弘历, reigned 1735-1799
lit. to upend heaven and earth (idiom) / fig. to change the course of events / to turn things around
rations (to take on expedition)
lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much
Qian'an county in Songyuan 松原, Jilin
Qian County in Xianyang 咸陽|咸阳, Shaanxi
Qianling at Xianyang 咸陽市|咸阳市 in Shaanxi, burial site of third Tang emperor 高宗 and empress Wuzetian 武則天|武则天
cheese
dry powder
to air-dry / to season (timber etc) / air-dried / air-drying
smoked bean curd
to have the full responsibility of a job / allocated task
to blow-dry
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
dried fruit / dry fruits (nuts etc)
(of speech or actions) direct and efficient / without fooling around
to dry (sth) by airing
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *乾* | 乾* | *乾
old variant of
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  *乾* | 乾* | *乾
variant of
dry ice (i.e. frozen CO2) / CL: 塊|块
hay
to give a hollow laugh / to force a smile / forced laugh / CL: 聲|声
withered; shriveled; dried-up
adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
plain cooked rice (as opposed to rice porridge)
to dry up
dried vegetable
noodles mixed with a sauce and served with toppings (not in a soup) / (dialect) flour
dried out / wizened / shriveled
(of dry soil etc) to crack; (of skin) to chap
to cough without phlegm / a dry cough
a mummy
squeaky clean / neat and tidy / efficient
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
conpoy / dried scallop
to dry in the shade
lit. smell of breast milk not yet dried (idiom) / fig. immature and inexperienced; still wet behind the ears
wizened / skinny and shriveled
unclean / filthy / foul-mouthed
rammed earth / adobe house
a little dirt never killed anybody (proverb) / a couple of germs won't do you any harm
strong in appearance but weak in reality (idiom)
to carbonize / dry distillation / carbonization
to dry clean / dry cleaning
dried up; shriveled; withered
parched / dry mouth
to cry out loud without tears
to dry over a fire / to roast
cautious and diligent all day long (idiom)
to be spat on in the face and let it dry by itself, not wiping it off (idiom); to turn the other cheek / to drain the cup of humiliation
dried shrimps
to wipe dry
dried ginger
to remove excess moisture by spinning; to put (clothes) through the spin cycle; to spin-dry
low tide / low water
Xiao Qian (1910-1999), Mongolian-born, Cambridge-educated journalist active during Second World War in Europe, subsequently famous author and translator
to drain
The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River, proletarian novel by Ding Ling, winner of 1951 Stalin prize
see 豆干
single girl who lives a lackadaisical life, uninterested in relationships (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 干物女 "himono onna")
drysuit (diving)
to dry out / to dry completely
dry pot, a type of dish in which ingredients are wok-fried, then served hot in a clay pot or on a metal pan
(medicine) xeropthalmia; dry eye syndrome
Buddha (archaic) / Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha)
(neologism) person who posts online in support of the Chinese government, but unlike a wumao 五毛, is not paid for doing so (abbr. for 自帶乾糧的五毛|自带干粮的五毛)
raisin / dried grape
raisin
soda biscuit / cracker
variant of 豆干
to satisfy a craving with substitutes
income provided by a sinecure
adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
dried food
adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
Three great poets of the Qianlong and Jiaqing era (1735-1820), namely: Yuan Mei 袁枚, Jiang Shiquan 蔣士銓|蒋士铨 and Zhao Yi 趙翼|赵翼
to retch
to dry-heave / to retch
to cry out loud without tears
adopted daughter (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
Qian'an county in Songyuan 松原, Jilin

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