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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
clean / neat
HSK 1
to drink a toast / Cheers! (proposing a toast) / Here's to you! / Bottoms up! / lit. dry cup
HSK 2
candid / direct and to the point / simply / just / might as well
HSK 5
drought / arid / dry
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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *干* | 干* | *干
surname Gan
(medicine) xerophthalmia; dry eye syndrome
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  *乾* | 乾* | *乾
surname Qian
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  *乾* | 乾* | *乾
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing heaven / male principle // ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest)
dry / parched / dull / insipid
the Qianlong era / Qianlong Emperor (1711-1799), sixth Qing emperor, princely title 寶親王|宝亲王, personal name 弘曆|弘历, reigned 1735-1799
Qian County in Xianyang 咸陽|咸阳, Shaanxi
dried fruit / dry fruits (nuts 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)
yin and yang; heaven and earth; the universe
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  *乾* | 乾* | *乾
old variant of
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  *乾* | 乾* | *乾
variant of
dry ice (i.e. frozen CO2) / CL: 塊|块
hay
to give a hollow laugh / to force a smile / forced laugh / CL: 聲|声
withered; shriveled; dried-up
adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
plain cooked rice (as opposed to rice porridge)
to dry up
dried vegetable
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
dry powder
(of dry soil etc) to crack; (of skin) to chap
to cough without phlegm / a dry cough
dried out / wizened / shriveled
(of speech or actions) direct and efficient / without fooling around
desiccated corpse; mummified body
noodles mixed with a sauce and served with toppings (not in a soup) / (dialect) flour
rations (to take on expedition)
cheese
dry and clean / clear and fresh
conpoy; dried scallop (dried adductor muscle of a scallop)
Qian'an county in Songyuan 松原, Jilin
dry and rough (skin) / hoarse (voice) / dry and heavy (style)
wizened / skinny and shriveled
parched / dry mouth
Qianling at Xianyang 咸陽市|咸阳市 in Shaanxi, burial site of third Tang emperor 高宗 and empress Wuzetian 武則天|武则天
to dry clean / dry cleaning
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
to cry out loud without tears
squeaky clean / neat and tidy / efficient
rammed earth / adobe house
to carbonize / dry distillation / carbonization
low tide / low water
fried beans, Sichuan style
dried ginger
adopted daughter (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
a drier
dried leaf
to watch helplessly
to worry helplessly
to dry out / to dry completely
Qian'an county in Songyuan 松原, Jilin
to stir-fry with oil only (no addition of water)
to wait in vain; to sit around waiting
adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
dried food
male actor playing the female role (Chinese opera)
green beans in sauce, popular Beijing dish
aridisol (soil taxonomy)
single girl who lives a lackadaisical life, uninterested in relationships (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 干物女 "himono onna")
drysuit (diving)
dry pot, a type of dish in which ingredients are wok-fried, then served hot in a clay pot or on a metal pan
income provided by a sinecure
adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
Three great poets of the Qianlong and Jiaqing era (1735-1820), namely: Yuan Mei 袁枚, Jiang Shiquan 蔣士銓|蒋士铨 and Zhao Yi 趙翼|赵翼
to retch
to dry-heave / to retch
to cry out loud without tears
hand dryer
all thunder but no rain (idiom) / a lot of noise but no action
prunes
dry-fried potato slices (Chinese dish)
desiccant
psoriasis
knapsack (for provisions) / haversack
casein


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