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干
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Definitions
- 1. tree trunk
- 2. main part of sth
- 3. to manage
- 4. to work
- 5. to do
- 6. capable
- 7. cadre
- 8. to kill (slang)
- 9. to fuck (vulgar)
- 10. (coll.) pissed off
- 11. annoyed
Example Sentences
1 shown干 杯！
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 干
Yugan county in Shangrao 上饒|上饶, Jiangxi
all thunder but no rain (idiom)
to remove excess moisture by spinning; to put (clothes) through the spin cycle; to spin-dry
Parmesan cheese
see 幹嘛|干嘛[gàn má]
capable and experienced
dry eye
dry and clean
Balkan Peninsula
to be assiduous and work full hours
Durkheim (1858-1917), French sociologist
to dry in the sun
the Ming dynasty provincial headquarters in the Heilongjiang and Vladivostok area
to worry helplessly
dried food (including dried fruits, mushrooms and seafoods such as shrimp and abalone)
Deccan (India)
police
drought
plain cooked rice (as opposed to rice porridge)
dry
lit. to exchange weapons of war for gifts of jade and silk (idiom)
soda biscuit
interferometer (physics)
public business
see 乾物女|干物女[gān wù nu:3]
dry and rough (skin)
what business?
word stem (in linguistics)
fried beans, Sichuan style
salad spinner
(of dry soil etc) to crack; (of skin) to chap
to work on one's own
same as 天干
income provided by a sinecure
dried vegetable
drysuit (diving)
Taklamakan (desert)
secretary-general
a mummy
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
to cry out loud without tears
clothes dryer
trunk canal
Taxkorgan township in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区[kā shí dì qū], west Xinjiang
competent
strong in appearance but weak in reality (idiom)
to wait in vain; to sit around waiting
Balkan
to watch helplessly
top-notch efficiency
radio interference; RF interference
prunes
to drain
withered
blood generating stem cells (in bone marrow)
weapons of war
to air-dry
(coll.) to be incompetent
to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work
to have the full responsibility of a job
clean and efficient
electromagnetic interference
smoked bean curd
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang
dry-fried potato slices (Chinese dish)
capable
What (noble errand) brings you here?
to work industriously
Taxkorgan Tajik autonomous county (Tashqurqan Tajik aptonom nahiyisi) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区[kā shí dì qū], west Xinjiang
knapsack (for provisions)
to reassign a cadre
blackberry lily (Belamcanda chinensis)
to adopt confrontational posture
responsibility
stem cell
biscuit; cracker; cookie
to meddle
to examine the cadres (i.e. 審查幹部|审查干部[shěn chá gàn bù])
arterial road
Chinook (helicopter)
to tie in to
to dry over a stove
dried leaf
ability
thieving
lit. smell of breast milk not yet dried (idiom)
Shinkansen (Japanese high-speed train)
conpoy
to work
to become a cadre (e.g. a promotion from shopfloor)
(dialect) to come to blows
adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan
dry powder
desiccant
capable
see 幹嘛|干嘛[gàn má]
to have nothing to do with
school for cadres
to stir-fry with oil only (no addition of water)
a system of payment partly in kind and partly in cash
unclean
cadre
to be irrelevant
dried ginger
to go all out
Tahsi or Dasi dried dofu, Taiwanese Taoyuan speciality
to dry-heave
to interfere
administrator
to wipe dry
Xingan County in Ji'an 吉安[jí ān], Jiangxi
cheese
dried shrimps
sb who gets things done
what are you doing?
wafer
to dry (sth) by airing
withered
to dry clean
the Ferghana Valley in modern Uzbekistan
to work resourcefully
adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
to let matters rest
crack (troops)
the Ferghana Valley (in Uzbekistan, central Asia)
stem
(medicine) xeropthalmia; dry eye syndrome
adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
to dry over a fire
main stream (of a river)
diaphysis (long segment of a bone)
to blow-dry
see 乾脆利落|干脆利落[gān cuì lì luo]
Taxkorgan Tajik autonomous county (Tashqurqan Tajik aptonom nahiyisi) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区[kā shí dì qū], west Xinjiang
Songtsen Gampo or Songzain Gambo (604-650) Tibetan emperor, founder of the Tubo 吐蕃[tǔ bō] dynasty
to drink a toast
raisin
wizened
to dry up
single girl who is not interested in relationships, living a lackadaisical life (loanword from Japanese \himono onna\)
worker chosen to become a cadre and sent to complete his schooling
a certain number or amount
to cry out loud without tears
candid
low tide
trunk line (of road, network etc)
a little dirt never killed anybody (proverb)
to dry out
to work
intelligent and capable (idiom)
secretary-general
psoriasis
trunk
Gan Bao (?-336), Chinese historian and writer, author of In Search of the Supernatural 搜神記|搜神记[sōu shén jì]
interferon
hay
green beans in sauce, popular Beijing dish
hand dryer
Songkran (Thai New Year festival)
Jianggan District of Hangzhou city 杭州市[háng zhōu shì], Zhejiang
Jianggan District of Hangzhou city 杭州市[háng zhōu shì], Zhejiang
to do what needs to be done, without delay
(coll.) to have a meal
able and efficient
tree trunk
Xingan County in Ji'an 吉安[jí ān], Jiangxi
squeaky clean
capable person
Cognac
part of Heilongjiang and the Vladivostok area ruled by the Ming dynasty
casein
parched
to rise through the ranks (as a party cadre)
to be spat on in the face and let it dry by itself, not wiping it off (idiom); to turn the other cheek
Bi Gan (Chinese god of wealth)
to get rid of
Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea
to retch
dry ice (i.e. frozen CO2)
Samarkand, city in Uzbekistan
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
cadres and masses
to give a hollow laugh
to dry in the shade
clean
thoroughly (idiom)
core network
Yugan county in Shangrao 上饒|上饶, Jiangxi
brain stem
hot dry noodles
The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River, proletarian novel by Ding Ling, winner of 1951 Stalin prize
the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shí tiān gān] and twelve earthly branches 十二枝
Arakan Mountains (aka Rakhine Mountains), mountain range in western Myanmar
lit. to go to war (idiom)
core network
lit. heroism reaching to the clouds (idiom)
dried beef
to quarrel (dialect)
to act rashly
relevant
the ten Heavenly Stems 甲[jiǎ], 乙[yǐ], 丙[bǐng], 丁[dīng], 戊[wù], 己[jǐ], 庚[gēng], 辛[xīn], 壬[rén], 癸[guǐ] (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III)
trunk
Uganda
what are you doing?
dried out
constipated
the tomb of Tibetan king Songtsen Gampo or Songzain Gambo in Lhoka prefecture
enthusiasm for doing sth
to do things recklessly
ability
aridisol (soil taxonomy)
rations (to take on expedition)
to totally stop doing something
mesenchymal stem cell MSC (in cell biology)
dried fruit
capability
high cadre
witness (in a law suit)
a drier
rammed earth
backbone network
to drain
to proceed tenaciously in spite of obstacles
branch
to dry (of weather, paint, cement etc)
(polite) your business
to carbonize
adopted daughter (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
to work hard
to disturb
sandwich cookie
lit. intense fire to dry wood (idiom); inferno in a woodpile
noninterference
the 10 heavenly stems 甲[jiǎ], 乙[yǐ], 丙[bǐng], 丁[dīng], 戊[wù], 己[jǐ], 庚[gēng], 辛[xīn], 壬[rén], 癸[guǐ], used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
main line
(of speech or actions) direct and efficient
lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much