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HSK
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
clean / neat
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *幹* | 幹* | *幹
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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *乾* | 乾* | *乾
dry / dried food / empty; hollow / taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster / futile; in vain / (dialect) rude; blunt / (dialect) to cold-shoulder
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *亁* | 亁* | *亁
variant of 乾|干
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *乹* | 乹* | *乹
old variant of 乾|干
HSK 1
what are you doing? / what's he up to?
HSK 1
to drink a toast / Cheers! (proposing a toast) / Here's to you! / Bottoms up! / lit. dry cup
HSK 2
erhua variant of 幹活|干活
HSK 2
variant of 幹嘛|干嘛
HSK 3
capable / competent
HSK 4
biscuit; cracker; cookie / CL: , 塊|块
HSK 5
to disturb / to interfere / perturbation / interference (physics)
HSK 5
candid / direct and to the point / simply / just / might as well
HSK 5
to meddle / to intervene / intervention
HSK 5
to interfere / to meddle / interference
HSK 6
administrator / executive secretary
HSK 7-9
to dry over a stove
HSK 7-9
a certain number or amount / how many? / how much?
HSK 7-9
drought / arid / dry
HSK 7-9
diaphysis (long segment of a bone) / fig. backbone
HSK 7-9
thoroughly (idiom) / completely / one and all / very clean
HSK 7-9
cadre / official / officer / manager
HSK 7-9
(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
weapons of war / arms
HSK 7-9
to do what needs to be done, without delay
HSK 7-9
withered; shriveled; dried-up
desiccant
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *干* | 干* | *干
surname Gan
a drier
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *乾* | 乾* | *乾
surname Gan
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)
Cognac / brandy 白蘭地|白兰地 from the Cognac region of southwest France
noodles mixed with a sauce and served with toppings (not in a soup) / (dialect) flour
to dry clean / dry cleaning
police / police cadres
main line / trunk line
tree trunk
Uganda
secretary-general
to get rid of
rations (to take on expedition)
to work; to be employed
adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
to dry in the shade
clothes dryer
Balkan Peninsula
trunk / main / core
dry and clean / clear and fresh
capable and experienced
adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
adopted daughter (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
trunk / torso
to tie in to
to dry up
to dry (sth) by airing
intelligent and capable (idiom)
to dry in the sun
branch / limb (of a tree)
to quarrel (dialect)
dried fruit / dry fruits (nuts etc)
enthusiasm for doing sth
raisin / dried grape
sandwich cookie / (jocular) sb who is caught between two opposing parties; sb who is between the hammer and the anvil
squeaky clean / neat and tidy / efficient
lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much
dried out / wizened / shriveled
dry and rough (skin) / hoarse (voice) / dry and heavy (style)
soda biscuit; soda cracker; saltine
high cadre / top party member
dry powder
dry ice (i.e. frozen CO2) / CL: 塊|块
to retch
public business / official work
competent / capable
responsibility
to wait in vain; to sit around waiting
capable person
brain stem
lit. to go to war (idiom) / fig. to make a big fuss over sth
to work hard
to act rashly / to act precipitously regardless of the consequences / reckless / foolhardy / daredevil
able and efficient
smoked bean curd
(dialect) to come to blows / to have a row
ability / competence
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
parched / dry mouth
(coll.) to be incompetent / useless / good-for-nothing
crack (troops) / special (forces) / highly capable
lit. to exchange weapons of war for gifts of jade and silk (idiom) / fig. to turn hostility into friendship
to worry helplessly
dried vegetable
to proceed tenaciously in spite of obstacles
desiccated corpse; mummified body
ability / capable
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
to have nothing to do with
to go all out / to work energetically
word stem (in linguistics)

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