old variant of 乾|干[gan1]

clean; neat

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

biscuit; cracker; cookie; CL:片[pian4],塊|块[kuai4]

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

surname Qian

old variant of 乾[qian2]

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 wipe dry

raisin; dried grape

thoroughly (idiom); completely; one and all; very clean

to dry clean; dry cleaning

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

to dry up

(fig.) to squeeze dry; to exhaust

squeaky clean; neat and tidy; efficient

withered; shriveled; dried-up

lit. smell of breast milk not yet dried (idiom); fig. immature and inexperienced; still wet behind the ears

yin and yang; heaven and earth; the universe

clothes dryer

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

dried beef; beef jerky

to dry over a stove

to dry (sth) by airing

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])

Qian County or Qianxian, a county in Xianyang City 咸陽市|咸阳市[Xian2 yang2 Shi4], Shaanxi

see 乾安縣|乾安县[Qian2 an1 Xian4]

male actor playing the female role (Chinese opera)

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

the Qianlong era; Qianlong Emperor (1711–1799), sixth Qing emperor, princely title 寶親王|宝亲王[Bao3 Qin1 wang2], personal name 弘曆|弘历[Hong2 li4], reigned 1735–1799

to freeze-dry; freeze-dried food (such as meat or fruit)

to have the full responsibility of a job; allocated task

to blow-dry

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)

desiccated corpse; mummified body