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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
what are you doing? / what's he up to?
HSK 1
erhua variant of 幹活|干活
HSK 2
variant of 幹嘛|干嘛
HSK 3
capable / competent
HSK 4
administrator / executive secretary
HSK 7-9
diaphysis (long segment of a bone) / fig. backbone
HSK 7-9
cadre / official / officer / manager
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
main stream (of a river)
police / police cadres
main line / trunk line
tree trunk
secretary-general
to get rid of
to work; to be employed
Balkan Peninsula
trunk / main / core
capable and experienced
trunk / torso
to tie in to
intelligent and capable (idiom)
branch / limb (of a tree)
to quarrel (dialect)
enthusiasm for doing sth
high cadre / top party member
public business / official work
capable person
brain stem
to work hard
able and efficient
(dialect) to come to blows / to have a row
ability / competence
crack (troops) / special (forces) / highly capable
to proceed tenaciously in spite of obstacles
ability / capable
to go all out / to work energetically
word stem (in linguistics)
arterial road / main road / main watercourse
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
sb who gets things done / doer
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
May 7 cadre school (farm where urban cadres had to undertake manual labor and study ideology during the Cultural Revolution) (abbr. for 五七幹部學校|五七干部学校)
to work industriously / to get things done
cadres and masses / party officials and ordinary people
to reassign a cadre / to choose a worker to be promoted to cadre
school for cadres / May 7 Cadre School 五七幹校|五七干校
variant of 幹嘛|干嘛
Shinkansen (Japanese high-speed train)
to totally stop doing something / to reform one's ways
to do things recklessly / to persist in doing sth in one's own way
to examine the cadres (i.e. 審查幹部|审查干部)
Xingan County in Ji'an 吉安, Jiangxi
(Tw) (vulgar) fuck you! (literally, "fuck your mother")
stem / stalk
what are you doing? / whatever for? / why on earth?
stem cell
secretary-general
What (noble errand) brings you here? / May I help you? / What can I do for you?
blood generating stem cells (in bone marrow)
Durkheim (1858-1917), French sociologist
trunk line (of road, network etc) / backbone (cable)
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)
(Singapore, Malaysia) to commit an offence
(coll.) to have a meal
core network
core network / backbone network
to be assiduous and work full hours
Balkan
capability / capable person
trunk canal
(Tw) (slang) remark that sounds like it makes sense but is actually nonsense
to rise through the ranks (as a party cadre)
Xingan County in Ji'an 吉安, Jiangxi
capable
top-notch efficiency
worker chosen to become a cadre and sent to complete his schooling
to become a cadre (e.g. a promotion from shopfloor)
mesenchymal stem cell MSC (in cell biology)
backbone network


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