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HSK
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
capable / competent
HSK 4
biscuit; cracker; cookie / CL: , 塊|块
HSK 5
a certain number or amount / how many? / how much?
HSK 7-9
diaphysis (long segment of a bone) / fig. backbone
HSK 7-9
to dry over a stove
HSK 7-9
to do what needs to be done, without delay
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *干* | 干* | *干
surname Gan
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *干* | 干* | *干
surname Gan
Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan
branch / limb (of a tree)
intelligent and capable (idiom)
smoked bean curd
trunk / main / core
to have the full responsibility of a job / allocated task
trunk / torso
to blow-dry
tree trunk
ability / competence
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
to dry (sth) by airing
relevant / to have to do with / (physics) (of light etc) coherent
to go all out / to work energetically
brain stem
high cadre / top party member
crack (troops) / special (forces) / highly capable
Xingan County in Ji'an 吉安, Jiangxi
to air-dry / to season (timber etc) / air-dried / air-drying
to work industriously / to get things done
to work on one's own / to work single-handed / individual farming
to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work / to make an all-out effort / up to the neck in work
Balkan
Bi Gan (Chinese god of wealth)
competent / capable
(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?
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 work resourcefully / to apply intelligence
public business / official work
to totally stop doing something / to reform one's ways
word stem (in linguistics)
to become a cadre (e.g. a promotion from shopfloor)
to rise through the ranks (as a party cadre)
to dry over a fire / to roast
to reassign a cadre / to choose a worker to be promoted to cadre
(literary) crisscross / uneven / disorderly / rim of the eye / variant of 欄杆|栏杆
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)
same as 天干 / the 10 heavenly stems , , , , , , , , , (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III)
blackberry lily (Belamcanda chinensis) / leopard lily
to drain
to remove excess moisture by spinning; to put (clothes) through the spin cycle; to spin-dry
to do things recklessly / to persist in doing sth in one's own way
to tie in to
dried shrimps
Deccan (India)
raisin / dried grape
to have nothing to do with
see 豆干
sandwich cookie / (jocular) sb who is caught between two opposing parties; sb who is between the hammer and the anvil
to examine the cadres (i.e. 審查幹部|审查干部)
What (noble errand) brings you here? / May I help you? / What can I do for you?
fortune cookie
dried sweet potato slices
to be irrelevant / to have nothing to do with
dried beef / jerky / charqui
wafer / wafer cookie
dried tofu made in Daxi, a district of Taoyuan, Taiwan famous for its dried tofu 豆干
Durkheim (1858-1917), French sociologist
soda biscuit; soda cracker; saltine
pressed tofu; dried tofu (ingredient of Chinese cuisine made by pressing, drying and flavoring tofu to produce a firm chewy block, typically cut into thin strips when preparing a dish)
the ten Heavenly Stems , , , , , , , , , (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III)
Taklamakan (desert)
part of Heilongjiang and the Vladivostok area ruled by the Ming dynasty
to adopt confrontational posture / to meet head-on / to compete
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Chinook (helicopter)
capable
to drain / to run dry
to proceed tenaciously in spite of obstacles
able and efficient
stem / stalk
variant of 豆干


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