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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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  *干* | 干* | *干
(bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with / one of the ten heavenly stems 天干 / (archaic) shield
HSK 1
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  *干* | 干* | *干
tree trunk / main part of sth / to manage / to work / to do / capable / cadre / to kill (slang) / to fuck (vulgar) / (coll.) pissed off / annoyed
HSK 1
to drink a toast / Cheers! (proposing a toast) / Here's to you! / Bottoms up! / lit. dry cup
HSK 2
to disturb / to interfere / perturbation / interference (physics)
HSK 5
clean / neat
HSK 1
what are you doing? / what's he up to?
HSK 1
candid / direct and to the point / simply / just / might as well
HSK 5
capable / competent
HSK 4
thoroughly (idiom) / completely / one and all / very clean
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *干* | 干* | *干
old variant of 乾|干
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *干* | 干* | *干
variant of 乾|干
HSK 1
biscuit; cracker; cookie / CL: , 塊|块
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *干* | 干* | *干
surname Gan
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surname Gan
diaphysis (long segment of a bone) / fig. backbone
HSK 7-9
to meddle / to intervene / intervention
HSK 5
to interfere / to meddle / interference
HSK 6
dry cell (battery)
cadre / official / officer / manager
HSK 7-9
a little dirt never killed anybody (proverb) / a couple of germs won't do you any harm
dried meat; jerky
dried fish
noninterference / nonintervention
arterial road / main road / main watercourse
weapons of war / arms
HSK 7-9
desiccant
boiled noodles served without broth, topped with just a sprinkle of oil and some chopped spring onions, to which customers add vinegar, soy sauce or chili oil according to their taste
adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
to have the full responsibility of a job / allocated task
drought / arid / dry
HSK 7-9
erhua variant of 幹活|干活
HSK 2
to dry over a stove
HSK 7-9
hay
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
main line / trunk line
lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much
sb who gets things done / doer
lit. smell of breast milk not yet dried (idiom) / fig. immature and inexperienced; still wet behind the ears
conpoy; dried scallop (dried adductor muscle of a scallop)
Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang
cadres and masses / party officials and ordinary people
enthusiasm for doing sth
a certain number or amount / how many? / how much?
HSK 7-9
to drain / to run dry
to dry clean / dry cleaning
to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work / to make an all-out effort / up to the neck in work
lit. to go to war (idiom) / fig. to make a big fuss over sth
stem cell
top-notch efficiency
smoked bean curd
trunk line (of road, network etc) / backbone (cable)
to work industriously / to get things done
(dialect) to come to blows / to have a row
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)
competent / capable
electromagnetic interference
noodles mixed with a sauce and served with toppings (not in a soup) / (dialect) flour
to rise through the ranks (as a party cadre)
interferon
Uganda
administrator / executive secretary
HSK 7-9
dried beef; beef jerky
cheese
secretary-general
police / police cadres
knapsack (for provisions) / haversack
responsibility
to work; to be employed
the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 and twelve earthly branches 十二枝 / sexagenary cycle
ability / capable
Yugan, a county in Shangrao City 上饒市|上饶市, Jiangxi
(medicine) xerophthalmia; dry eye syndrome
the 10 heavenly stems , , , , , , , , , , used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
to interfere in state affairs; to meddle in politics
dry and rough (skin) / hoarse (voice) / dry and heavy (style)
dried out / wizened / shriveled
branch / limb (of a tree)
to cry out loud without tears
to cry out loud without tears
to drain
crack (troops) / special (forces) / highly capable
prunes
dried ginger
to dry (sth) by airing
noodles served hot, with toppings including sesame paste and soy sauce – popular in Wuhan as a breakfast dish or late-night snack
to remove excess moisture by spinning; to put (clothes) through the spin cycle; to spin-dry
stem / stalk
backbone network
to worry helplessly
plain cooked rice (as opposed to rice porridge)
(coll.) to have a meal
trunk / main / core
adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
capable and experienced
to do what needs to be done, without delay
HSK 7-9
Balkan Peninsula

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