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HSK
clean / neat
HSK 1
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  *乾* | 乾* | *乾
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
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
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
withered; shriveled; dried-up
desiccant
Qian'an county in Songyuan 松原, Jilin
a drier
yin and yang; heaven and earth; the universe
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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)
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  *乾* | 乾* | *乾
surname Gan
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)
noodles mixed with a sauce and served with toppings (not in a soup) / (dialect) flour
to dry clean / dry cleaning
rations (to take on expedition)
adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
plain cooked rice (as opposed to rice porridge)
dry and clean / clear and fresh
adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
adopted daughter (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
to dry up
dried fruit / dry fruits (nuts etc)
squeaky clean / neat and tidy / efficient
dried out / wizened / shriveled
dry and rough (skin) / hoarse (voice) / dry and heavy (style)
dry powder
dry ice (i.e. frozen CO2) / CL: 塊|块
to retch
to wait in vain; to sit around waiting
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
parched / dry mouth
Qian County in Xianyang 咸陽|咸阳, Shaanxi
to worry helplessly
dried vegetable
desiccated corpse; mummified body
to carbonize / dry distillation / carbonization
dried ginger
cheese
adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
dried food
to give a hollow laugh / to force a smile / forced laugh / CL: 聲|声
(medicine) xerophthalmia; dry eye syndrome
Qian'an county in Songyuan 松原, Jilin
to cough without phlegm / a dry cough
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
to cry out loud without tears
dry / parched / dull / insipid
(of dry soil etc) to crack; (of skin) to chap
male actor playing the female role (Chinese opera)
to watch helplessly
hay
wizened / skinny and shriveled
to cry out loud without tears
to dry-heave / to retch
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
rammed earth / adobe house
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  *乹* | 乹* | *乹
old variant of
income provided by a sinecure
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  *亁* | 亁* | *亁
variant of
psoriasis
dried leaf
conpoy; dried scallop (dried adductor muscle of a scallop)
fried beans, Sichuan style
drysuit (diving)
hand dryer
low tide / low water
prunes
dry-fried potato slices (Chinese dish)
green beans in sauce, popular Beijing dish
single girl who lives a lackadaisical life, uninterested in relationships (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 干物女 "himono onna")
dry pot, a type of dish in which ingredients are wok-fried, then served hot in a clay pot or on a metal pan
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
all thunder but no rain (idiom) / a lot of noise but no action
aridisol (soil taxonomy)
to stir-fry with oil only (no addition of water)
knapsack (for provisions) / haversack
(of speech or actions) direct and efficient / without fooling around
to dry out / to dry completely
casein


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