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  *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
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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
to drink a toast / Cheers! (proposing a toast) / Here's to you! / Bottoms up! / lit. dry cup
HSK 2
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  *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
clean / neat
HSK 1
candid / direct and to the point / simply / just / might as well
HSK 5
what are you doing? / what's he up to?
HSK 1
to meddle / to intervene / intervention
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *乾* | 乾* | *乾
surname Gan
to disturb / to interfere / perturbation / interference (physics)
HSK 5
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  *干* | 干* | *干
surname Gan
to interfere / to meddle / interference
HSK 6
capable / competent
HSK 4
drought / arid / dry
HSK 7-9
noninterference / nonintervention
to dry (sth) by airing
interferometer (physics)
Arakan Mountains (aka Rakhine Mountains), mountain range in western Myanmar
weapons of war / arms
HSK 7-9
Taxkorgan Tajik autonomous county (Tashqurqan Tajik aptonom nahiyisi) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区, west Xinjiang
capable
trunk line (of road, network etc) / backbone (cable)
to dry clean / dry cleaning
to work; to be employed
to work hard
(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
core network / backbone network
noodles mixed with a sauce and served with toppings (not in a soup) / (dialect) flour
thoroughly (idiom) / completely / one and all / very clean
HSK 7-9
dry ice (i.e. frozen CO2) / CL: 塊|块
biscuit; cracker; cookie / CL: , 塊|块
HSK 5
a certain number or amount / how many? / how much?
HSK 7-9
dry powder
lit. smell of breast milk not yet dried (idiom) / fig. immature and inexperienced; still wet behind the ears
what are you doing? / whatever for? / why on earth?
to do what needs to be done, without delay
HSK 7-9
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)
administrator / executive secretary
HSK 7-9
lit. intense fire to dry wood (idiom); inferno in a woodpile / fig. consuming passion between lovers
a system of payment partly in kind and partly in cash
withered; shriveled; dried-up
parched / dry mouth
conpoy; dried scallop (dried adductor muscle of a scallop)
salt-pickled sun-dried cabbage (or potherb mustard etc)
(coll.) to be incompetent / useless / good-for-nothing
to dry up
to worry helplessly
to cough without phlegm / a dry cough
(of speech or actions) direct and efficient / without fooling around
diaphysis (long segment of a bone) / fig. backbone
HSK 7-9
arterial road / main road / main watercourse
ability / competence
public business / official work
the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 and twelve earthly branches 十二枝 / sexagenary cycle
ability / capable
cadre / official / officer / manager
HSK 7-9
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
capable and experienced
(idiom) to devour (food) / (idiom) to shamelessly take advantage; to ruthlessly exploit
trunk / main / core
variant of 幹嘛|干嘛
HSK 3
stem cell
all thunder but no rain (idiom) / a lot of noise but no action
green beans in sauce, popular Beijing dish
Balkan
main line / trunk line
desiccated corpse; mummified body
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 cry out loud without tears
to work on one's own / to work single-handed / individual farming
dry and clean / clear and fresh
wizened / skinny and shriveled
(coll.) to have a meal
to stir-fry with oil only (no addition of water)
squeaky clean / neat and tidy / efficient
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *亁* | 亁* | *亁
variant of 乾|干
HSK 1
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
cheese
dry pot, a type of dish in which ingredients are wok-fried, then served hot in a clay pot or on a metal pan
May 7 cadre school (farm where urban cadres had to undertake manual labor and study ideology during the Cultural Revolution) (abbr. to 五七幹校|五七干校)
to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work / to make an all-out effort / up to the neck in work
Balkan Peninsula
responsibility
to get rid of
thieving / light-fingered / prone to stealing
(Tw) (vulgar) fuck you! (literally, "fuck your mother")
Shinkansen (Japanese high-speed train)
adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
to be irrelevant / to have nothing to do with
fried beans, Sichuan style
(medicine) xerophthalmia; dry eye syndrome
hay
desiccant
lit. to go to war (idiom) / fig. to make a big fuss over sth
the tomb of Tibetan king Songtsen Gampo or Songzain Gambo in Lhoka prefecture
noodles served hot, with toppings including sesame paste and soy sauce – popular in Wuhan as a breakfast dish or late-night snack
main stream (of a river)

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