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Trad. 乾
- dry
- dried food
- empty; hollow
- taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster
- futile; in vain
- (dialect) rude; blunt
- (dialect) to cold-shoulder
Trad. 幹
- tree trunk
- main part of sth
- to manage
- to work
- to do
- capable
- cadre
- to kill (slang)
- to fuck (vulgar)
- (coll.) pissed off
- annoyed
- (bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with
- one of the ten heavenly stems 天干[tian1 gan1]
- (archaic) shield
Trad. 甩乾
- to remove excess moisture by spinning; to put (clothes) through the spin cycle; to spin-dry
Trad. 愣幹
- to do things recklessly
- to persist in doing sth in one's own way
Trad. 闌干
- (literary) crisscross
- uneven
- disorderly
- rim of the eye
- variant of 欄杆|栏杆[lan2 gan1]
Trad. 乾兒
- adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
Trad. 乾娘
- adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
Trad. 乾媽
- adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
- same as 天干
- the 10 heavenly stems 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III)
Trad. 乾杯
- to drink a toast
- Cheers! (proposing a toast)
- Here's to you!
- Bottoms up!
- lit. dry cup
Trad. 幹校
- school for cadres
- May 7 Cadre School 五七幹校|五七干校[Wu3 Qi1 Gan4 xiao4]
Trad. 乾燥
- (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
Trad. 幹話
- (Tw) (slang) remark that sounds like it makes sense but is actually nonsense
Trad. 乾爹
- adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
Trad. 乾笑
- to give a hollow laugh
- to force a smile
- forced laugh
- CL:聲|声[sheng1]
- the 10 heavenly stems 甲[jia3], 乙[yi3], 丙[bing3], 丁[ding1], 戊[wu4], 己[ji3], 庚[geng1], 辛[xin1], 壬[ren2], 癸[gui3], used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
Trad. 乾貨
- 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[shui3 fen4])
Trad. 乾鍋
- dry pot, a type of dish in which ingredients are wok-fried, then served hot in a clay pot or on a metal pan
Trad. 乾麵
- noodles mixed with a sauce and served with toppings (not in a soup)
- (dialect) flour
Trad. 蠻幹
- to act rashly
- to act precipitously regardless of the consequences
- reckless
- foolhardy
- daredevil
Trad. 干寶
- Gan Bao (?-336), Chinese historian and writer, author of In Search of the Supernatural 搜神記|搜神记[Sou1 shen2 Ji4]
- the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] and twelve earthly branches 十二枝
- sexagenary cycle
Trad. 干謁
- (literary) to seek an audience with sb in power (to solicit favor)
- Cognac
- brandy 白蘭地|白兰地[bai2 lan2 di4] from the Cognac region of southwest France
- 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)
Trad. 乾兒子
- adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
- the ten Heavenly Stems 甲[jia3], 乙[yi3], 丙[bing3], 丁[ding1], 戊[wu4], 己[ji3], 庚[geng1], 辛[xin1], 壬[ren2], 癸[gui3] (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III)
Trad. 乾女兒
- adopted daughter (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
Trad. 主幹線
- trunk line (of road, network etc)
- backbone (cable)
Trad. 幹你娘
- (Tw) (vulgar) fuck you! (literally, "fuck your mother")
Trad. 乾物女
- single girl who lives a lackadaisical life, uninterested in relationships (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 干物女 "himono onna")
Trad. 自乾五
- (neologism) person who posts online in support of the Chinese government, but unlike a wumao 五毛[wu3 mao2], is not paid for doing so (abbr. for 自帶乾糧的五毛|自带干粮的五毛[zi4 dai4 gan1 liang2 de5 wu3 mao2])
Trad. 熱乾麵
- noodles served hot, with toppings including sesame paste and soy sauce – popular in Wuhan as a breakfast dish or late-night snack
Trad. 吃乾飯
- (coll.) to be incompetent
- useless
- good-for-nothing
Trad. 對著幹
- to adopt confrontational posture
- to meet head-on
- to compete
Trad. 餘干縣
- Yugan, a county in Shangrao City 上饒市|上饶市[Shang4 rao2 Shi4], Jiangxi
Trad. 調幹生
- worker chosen to become a cadre and sent to complete his schooling