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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
biscuit; cracker; cookie / CL: , 塊|块
HSK 5
to dry over a stove
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *干* | 干* | *干
surname Gan
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *乾* | 乾* | *乾
surname Qian
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *乾* | 乾* | *乾
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing heaven / male principle // ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest)
smoked bean curd
to blow-dry
to dry (sth) by airing
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *乾* | 乾* | *乾
old variant of
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *乾* | 乾* | *乾
variant of
to air-dry / to season (timber etc) / air-dried / air-drying
to have the full responsibility of a job / allocated task
to dry in the sun
to dry in the shade
strong in appearance but weak in reality (idiom)
lit. smell of breast milk not yet dried (idiom) / fig. immature and inexperienced; still wet behind the ears
dried up; shriveled; withered
to dry over a fire / to roast
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 wipe dry
to freeze-dry / freeze-dried food (such as meat or fruit)
to drain
to remove excess moisture by spinning; to put (clothes) through the spin cycle; to spin-dry
dried shrimps
Xiao Qian (1910-1999), Mongolian-born, Cambridge-educated journalist active during Second World War in Europe, subsequently famous author and translator
raisin / dried grape
see 豆干
sandwich cookie / (jocular) sb who is caught between two opposing parties; sb who is between the hammer and the anvil
fortune cookie
to drain / to run dry
dried sweet potato slices
dried beef / jerky / charqui
wafer / wafer cookie
dried tofu made in Daxi, a district of Taoyuan, Taiwan famous for its dried tofu 豆干
soda biscuit; soda cracker; saltine
Buddha (archaic) / Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha)
variant of 豆干


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