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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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *干* | 干* | *干
old variant of 乾|干
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *干* | 干* | *干
variant of 乾|干
HSK 1
clean / neat
HSK 1
what are you doing? / what's he up to?
HSK 1
to drink a toast / Cheers! (proposing a toast) / Here's to you! / Bottoms up! / lit. dry cup
HSK 2
erhua variant of 幹活|干活
HSK 2
variant of 幹嘛|干嘛
HSK 3
capable / competent
HSK 4
to meddle / to intervene / intervention
HSK 5
biscuit; cracker; cookie / CL: , 塊|块
HSK 5
to disturb / to interfere / perturbation / interference (physics)
HSK 5
candid / direct and to the point / simply / just / might as well
HSK 5
to interfere / to meddle / interference
HSK 6
cadre / official / officer / manager
HSK 7-9
a certain number or amount / how many? / how much?
HSK 7-9
drought / arid / dry
HSK 7-9
administrator / executive secretary
HSK 7-9
diaphysis (long segment of a bone) / fig. backbone
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
thoroughly (idiom) / completely / one and all / very clean
HSK 7-9
weapons of war / arms
HSK 7-9
to do what needs to be done, without delay
HSK 7-9
enthusiasm for doing sth
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *干* | 干* | *干
surname Gan
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *干* | 干* | *干
surname Gan
(medicine) xerophthalmia; dry eye syndrome
dry / parched / dull / insipid
Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan
branch / limb (of a tree)
to get rid of
to work; to be employed
Uganda
intelligent and capable (idiom)
smoked bean curd
the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 and twelve earthly branches 十二枝 / sexagenary cycle
trunk / main / core
to have the full responsibility of a job / allocated task
trunk / torso
to blow-dry
tree trunk
ability / competence
dried fruit / dry fruits (nuts etc)
Yugan county in Shangrao 上饒|上饶, Jiangxi
the 10 heavenly stems , , , , , , , , , , used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
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
relevant / to have to do with / (physics) (of light etc) coherent
dry ice (i.e. frozen CO2) / CL: 塊|块
hay
to give a hollow laugh / to force a smile / forced laugh / CL: 聲|声
to go all out / to work energetically
withered; shriveled; dried-up
capable person
adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
plain cooked rice (as opposed to rice porridge)
(coll.) to have a meal
to dry up
responsibility
dried vegetable
police / police cadres
brain stem
arterial road / main road / main watercourse
noodles mixed with a sauce and served with toppings (not in a soup) / (dialect) flour
trunk canal
high cadre / top party member
crack (troops) / special (forces) / highly capable
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
dry powder
(of dry soil etc) to crack; (of skin) to chap
cadres and masses / party officials and ordinary people
Xingan County in Ji'an 吉安, Jiangxi
to cough without phlegm / a dry cough
to air-dry / to season (timber etc) / air-dried / air-drying
to work industriously / to get things done
main line / trunk line
dried out / wizened / shriveled
to work on one's own / to work single-handed / individual farming
lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much
(of speech or actions) direct and efficient / without fooling around
to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work / to make an all-out effort / up to the neck in work
desiccated corpse; mummified body
Balkan
Bi Gan (Chinese god of wealth)
competent / capable
rations (to take on expedition)
cheese
capable and experienced
dry and clean / clear and fresh
main stream (of a river)
(polite) your business / what brings you?
to dry in the sun
to act rashly / to act precipitously regardless of the consequences / reckless / foolhardy / daredevil
to work hard
what business?
conpoy; dried scallop (dried adductor muscle of a scallop)
to dry in the shade

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