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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
capable / competent
HSK 4
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  *干* | 干* | *干
old variant of 乾|干
HSK 1
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  *干* | 干* | *干
variant of 乾|干
HSK 1
biscuit; cracker; cookie / CL: , 塊|块
HSK 5
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  *干* | 干* | *干
surname Gan
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surname Gan
diaphysis (long segment of a bone) / fig. backbone
HSK 7-9
dried meat; jerky
dried fish
to have the full responsibility of a job / allocated task
to dry over a stove
HSK 7-9
lit. smell of breast milk not yet dried (idiom) / fig. immature and inexperienced; still wet behind the ears
a certain number or amount / how many? / how much?
HSK 7-9
to drain / to run dry
to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work / to make an all-out effort / up to the neck in work
smoked bean curd
to work industriously / to get things done
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
to rise through the ranks (as a party cadre)
dried beef; beef jerky
the 10 heavenly stems , , , , , , , , , , used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
branch / limb (of a tree)
to drain
crack (troops) / special (forces) / highly capable
to dry (sth) by airing
to remove excess moisture by spinning; to put (clothes) through the spin cycle; to spin-dry
stem / stalk
trunk / main / core
to do what needs to be done, without delay
HSK 7-9
fortune cookie
to wipe dry
Durkheim (1858-1917), French sociologist
to dry over a fire / to roast
to blow-dry
to be irrelevant / to have nothing to do with
raisin / dried grape
sandwich cookie / (jocular) sb who is caught between two opposing parties; sb who is between the hammer and the anvil
ability / competence
brain stem
to become a cadre (e.g. a promotion from shopfloor)
strong in appearance but weak in reality (idiom)
Balkan
to tie in to
soda biscuit; soda cracker; saltine
word stem (in linguistics)
part of Heilongjiang and the Vladivostok area ruled by the Ming dynasty
to examine the cadres (i.e. 審查幹部|审查干部)
to air-dry / to season (timber etc) / air-dried / air-drying
to work on one's own / to work single-handed / individual farming
see 豆干
tree trunk
dried shrimps
to adopt confrontational posture / to meet head-on / to compete
to work hard
to go all out / to work energetically
relevant / to have to do with / (physics) (of light etc) coherent
to reassign a cadre / to choose a worker to be promoted to cadre
trunk / torso
capable
to dry in the shade
what business?
What (noble errand) brings you here? / May I help you? / What can I do for you?
dried tofu made in Daxi, a district of Taoyuan, Taiwan famous for its dried tofu 豆干
Deccan (India)
to do things recklessly / to persist in doing sth in one's own way
(polite) your business / what brings you?
intelligent and capable (idiom)
to have nothing to do with
to freeze-dry / freeze-dried food (such as meat or fruit)
dried fruit
Bi Gan (Chinese god of wealth)
Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan
wafer / wafer cookie
dried up; shriveled; withered
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
same as 天干 / the 10 heavenly stems , , , , , , , , , (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III)
to act rashly / to act precipitously regardless of the consequences / reckless / foolhardy / daredevil
Chinook (helicopter)
public business / official work
to work resourcefully / to apply intelligence
to dry in the sun
able and efficient
the ten Heavenly Stems , , , , , , , , , (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III)
to proceed tenaciously in spite of obstacles
blackberry lily (Belamcanda chinensis) / leopard lily
dried sweet potato slices
high cadre / top party member
to totally stop doing something / to reform one's ways
variant of 豆干
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
(literary) crisscross / uneven / disorderly / rim of the eye / variant of 欄杆|栏杆


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