surname Gan

old variant of 乾|干[gan1]

what are you doing?; whatever for?; why on earth?

what are you doing?; what's he up to?

clean; neat

variant of 幹嘛|干嘛[gan4 ma2]

to get rid of

to drink a toast; Cheers! (proposing a toast); Here's to you!; Bottoms up!; lit. dry cup

to work; to be employed

candid; direct and to the point; simply; just; might as well

to disturb; to interfere; perturbation; interference (physics)

to interfere; to meddle; interference

to meddle; to intervene; intervention

cheese

(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

drought; (of land, climate etc) arid; dry

hay

to dry clean; dry cleaning

cadre; official; officer; manager

erhua variant of 幹活|干活[gan4 huo2]

adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)

enthusiasm for doing sth

to dry up

stem cell

responsibility

squeaky clean; neat and tidy; efficient

withered; shriveled; dried-up

administrator; executive secretary

adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)

(dialect) to come to blows; to have a row

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])

variant of 干預|干预[gan1 yu4]

variant of 幹嘛|干嘛[gan4 ma2]

to quarrel (dialect)

to let matters rest

income provided by a sinecure

adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)

dried food

dry ice (i.e. frozen CO2); CL:塊|块[kuai4]

dried leaf

to cry out loud without tears

to retch

to cough without phlegm; a dry cough

to dry-heave; to retch

to cry out loud without tears

dried ginger

adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)

Gan Bao (?-336), Chinese historian and writer, author of In Search of the Supernatural 搜神記|搜神记[Sou1 shen2 Ji4]

capable person