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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
to drink a toast / Cheers! (proposing a toast) / Here's to you! / Bottoms up! / lit. dry cup
HSK 2
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  *升* | 升* | *升
to ascend; to rise / to promote; to elevate / liter / unit of dry measure for grain (= one liter or one-tenth dou )
HSK 3
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  *晒* | 晒* | *晒
(of the sun) to shine on / to bask in (the sunshine) / to dry (clothes, grain etc) in the sun / (fig.) to expose and share (one's experiences and thoughts) on the Web (loanword from "share") / (coll.) to give the cold shoulder to
HSK 4
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  *松* | 松* | *松
loose / to loosen / to relax / floss (dry, fluffy food product made from shredded, seasoned meat or fish, used as a topping or filling)
HSK 4
dry land (as opposed to the sea)
HSK 4
drought / arid / dry
HSK 7-9
to wither / to dry up (of a plant) / to atrophy (of muscle, social custom etc)
HSK 7-9
(zoology) sea sponge / (esp.) dried sea sponge / sponge (made from polyester or cellulose etc) / foam rubber
HSK 7-9
to dry over a stove
HSK 7-9
(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
dry and dull; uninteresting; tedious
HSK 7-9
to be in the sun (getting warm or sunbathing etc) / to put sth in the sun (e.g. to dry it)
HSK 7-9
edible seaweed of genus Porphyra or genus Pyropia, esp. one used to make dried sheets of nori
(medicine) xerophthalmia; dry eye syndrome
small dried shrimp
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *石* | 石* | *石
dry measure for grain equal to ten dou ; one hundred liters / ancient pr. [shi2]
dry / parched / dull / insipid
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  *斗* | 斗* | *斗
dry measure for grain equal to ten or one-tenth of a / decaliter / peck / cup or dipper shaped object / old variant of
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  *垲* | 垲* | *垲
dry terrain
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  *枯* | 枯* | *枯
(of plants) withered / (of wells, rivers, etc) dried up / (bound form) dull; boring / (bound form) residue of pressed oilseeds
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  *合* | 合* | *合
100 ml / one-tenth of a peck / measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng or liter, or one-hundredth dou
to dry out / to extract water / dehydration / dehydrated / desiccation
to carbonize / dry distillation / carbonization
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *晅* | 晅* | *晅
light of the sun / to dry in the sun
black atractylodes rhizome (dried rhizome of any of several atractylodes species) (TCM)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *燥* | 燥* | *燥
dry; parched / impatient; vexed / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [sao4]) minced meat
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *灴* | 灴* | *灴
to bake, to roast / to dry at a fire
dried tangerine peel (used in cuisine and traditional Chinese medicine)
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  *晾* | 晾* | *晾
to dry in the air / (fig.) to cold-shoulder
to select sb for a position without announcing the decision until later / to decide behind closed doors / all cut and dried
to blow-dry
to sun-dry
small shrimp; dried, shelled shrimps / (Tw) (coll.) what (from Taiwanese 啥物, Tai-lo pr. [siánn-mih], equivalent to Mandarin 什麼|什么)
dried fruit / dry fruits (nuts etc)
used up / dried up / exhausted (of resources)
to run dry (of river)
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)
to dry (sth) by airing
withered grass; dry grass
to cure by drying over a fire (tea, meat etc) / to bake
dry ice (i.e. frozen CO2) / CL: 塊|块
rolls of dried soymilk cream (used in cooking after being rehydrated)
withered; shriveled; dried-up
dried beancurd (tofu)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *焙* | 焙* | *焙
to dry over a fire / to bake
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *脩* | 脩* | *脩
dried meat presented by pupils to their teacher at their first meeting (in ancient times) / dried; withered
to dry up
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  *炕* | 炕* | *炕
kang (a heatable brick bed) / to bake / to dry by the heat of a fire
fine black hair / dried plum (sliced, as cake ingredient)
dried vegetable
to rake in (money); to plunder; to milk people dry
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *晞* | 晞* | *晞
dawn / to dry in the sun
dry powder
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  *斛* | 斛* | *斛
ancient measuring vessel / fifty liters / dry measure for grain equal to five dou 五斗 (before Tang, ten pecks)
(of dry soil etc) to crack; (of skin) to chap
dried persimmon
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *腊* | 腊* | *腊
dried meat / also pr. [xi2]
meat floss / shredded dried pork
to cough without phlegm / a dry cough
to air-dry / to season (timber etc) / air-dried / air-drying
dried out / wizened / shriveled
magnesium powder (used in pyrotechnics etc) / (sports) gym chalk (magnesium carbonate), used as a drying agent on the hands of gymnasts, weight lifters etc
lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *涸* | 涸* | *涸
to dry / to dry up
sleep (dried mucus in the corner of the eye)
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  *糗* | 糗* | *糗
dry rations (for a journey) / (dialect) (of noodles etc) to become mush (from overcooking) / (coll.) embarrassing / embarrassment
lit. to fish for three days and sun-dry the nets for two days (proverb) / fig. not to persevere in doing sth / to do sth by fits and starts
dry and clean / clear and fresh
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *槁* | 槁* | *槁
dried up (wood) / dead tree
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *糇* | 糇* | *糇
dry provisions
to dry in the sun
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  *帣* | 帣* | *帣
a bag which holds 30 pecks (i.e. approx 3 kg dry measure)
lit. until the seas dry up and stones go soft (idiom) / fig. forever; until the end of time
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *甬* | 甬* | *甬
variant of , bucket / (classifier) cubic dry measure (5 pecks 五斗, approx half-liter)
conpoy; dried scallop (dried adductor muscle of a scallop)
prohibition / ban on alcohol / dry law
to dry in the shade
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *篝* | 篝* | *篝
bamboo frame for drying clothes / bamboo cage
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  *垎* | 垎* | *垎
(literary) (of soil) dry and hard / (used in place names)
dry and rough (skin) / hoarse (voice) / dry and heavy (style)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *隍* | 隍* | *隍
dry moat / god of city
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  *堭* | 堭* | *堭
a dry moat outside a city wall / a dry ditch
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  *阆* | 阆* | *阆
(literary) vast; spacious / (literary) lofty / (literary) tall door / (literary) dry moat outside a city wall
parched / dry mouth
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *脯* | 脯* | *脯
dried meat / preserved fruit
pressed (dried) salted duck
unprocessed sun-dried tea leaves used to make black or green tea
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  *鲞* | 鲞* | *鲞
dried fish
to dry clean / dry cleaning
lit. smell of breast milk not yet dried (idiom) / fig. immature and inexperienced; still wet behind the ears
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *澌* | 澌* | *澌
drain dry / to exhaust
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *笾* | 笾* | *笾
bamboo tazza used in ancient times to hold dry food for sacrifices or at banquets
dried up; shriveled; withered
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鱐* | 鱐* | *鱐
dried fish
(TCM) dried human placenta (used as medicine)
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  *菸* | 菸* | *菸
to wither / dried leaves / faded / withered
lit. a fish in a dried-out rut (idiom) / fig. a person in dire straits
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *膴* | 膴* | *膴
big piece of meat / dried meat
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  *熯* | 熯* | *熯
to dry with fire

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