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  *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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
to drink a toast / Cheers! (proposing a toast) / Here's to you! / Bottoms up! / lit. dry cup
HSK 2
to disturb / to interfere / perturbation / interference (physics)
HSK 5
clean / neat
HSK 1
what are you doing? / what's he up to?
HSK 1
candid / direct and to the point / simply / just / might as well
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *干* | 干* | *干
old variant of 乾|干
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *干* | 干* | *干
variant of 乾|干
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *干* | 干* | *干
surname Gan
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *干* | 干* | *干
surname Gan
to meddle / to intervene / intervention
HSK 5
to interfere / to meddle / interference
HSK 6
cadre / official / officer / manager
HSK 7-9
arterial road / main road / main watercourse
weapons of war / arms
HSK 7-9
desiccant
adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
drought / arid / dry
HSK 7-9
erhua variant of 幹活|干活
HSK 2
hay
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)
(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
main line / trunk line
conpoy; dried scallop (dried adductor muscle of a scallop)
cadres and masses / party officials and ordinary people
enthusiasm for doing sth
to dry clean / dry cleaning
stem cell
(dialect) to come to blows / to have a row
noodles mixed with a sauce and served with toppings (not in a soup) / (dialect) flour
interferon
administrator / executive secretary
HSK 7-9
cheese
police / police cadres
knapsack (for provisions) / haversack
responsibility
to work; to be employed
the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 and twelve earthly branches 十二枝 / sexagenary cycle
ability / capable
(medicine) xerophthalmia; dry eye syndrome
to interfere in state affairs; to meddle in politics
dry and rough (skin) / hoarse (voice) / dry and heavy (style)
dried out / wizened / shriveled
to cry out loud without tears
to cry out loud without tears
prunes
dried ginger
to worry helplessly
plain cooked rice (as opposed to rice porridge)
(coll.) to have a meal
adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
capable and experienced
parched / dry mouth
wizened / skinny and shriveled
dry powder
dried leaf
dry ice (i.e. frozen CO2) / CL: 塊|块
to wait in vain; to sit around waiting
to get rid of
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
all thunder but no rain (idiom) / a lot of noise but no action
casein
Gan Bao (?-336), Chinese historian and writer, author of In Search of the Supernatural 搜神記|搜神记
Cognac / brandy 白蘭地|白兰地 from the Cognac region of southwest France
adopted daughter (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
main stream (of a river)
adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
dried food
to retch
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
dried vegetable
(of dry soil etc) to crack; (of skin) to chap
withered; shriveled; dried-up
dry and clean / clear and fresh
(of speech or actions) direct and efficient / without fooling around
to let matters rest
(literary) to seek an audience with sb in power (to solicit favor)
what are you doing? / whatever for? / why on earth?
to dry up
to cough without phlegm / a dry cough
fried beans, Sichuan style
green beans in sauce, popular Beijing dish
to give a hollow laugh / to force a smile / forced laugh / CL: 聲|声
secretary-general
hand dryer
dried fruit / dry fruits (nuts etc)
low tide / low water
to dry out / to dry completely
dry pot, a type of dish in which ingredients are wok-fried, then served hot in a clay pot or on a metal pan
to stir-fry with oil only (no addition of water)
rations (to take on expedition)
dry-fried potato slices (Chinese dish)
aridisol (soil taxonomy)
school for cadres / May 7 Cadre School 五七幹校|五七干校
(Tw) (slang) remark that sounds like it makes sense but is actually nonsense
dry / parched / dull / insipid
to quarrel (dialect)

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