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


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