surname Gan

old variant of 乾|干[gan1]

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

capable; competent

What (noble errand) brings you here?; May I help you?; What can I do for you?

to wipe dry

to adopt confrontational posture; to meet head-on; to compete

to be irrelevant; to have nothing to do with

raisin; dried grape

tree trunk

to work on one's own; to work single-handed; individual farming

to totally stop doing something; to reform one's ways

(fig.) to squeeze dry; to exhaust

trunk; torso

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

ability; competence

a certain number or amount; how many?; how much?

dried beef; beef jerky

to dry over a stove

to dry (sth) by airing

official business; to do official business

trunk; main; core

what business?

see 餘干縣|余干县[Yu2 gan1 Xian4]

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

to have the full responsibility of a job; allocated task

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)

to blow-dry

to go all out; to work energetically

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

to work industriously; to get things done

to examine the cadres (i.e. 審查幹部|审查干部[shen3 cha2 gan4 bu4])

blackberry lily (Belamcanda chinensis); leopard lily

to work resourcefully; to apply intelligence

competent; capable

Deccan (India)

to do things recklessly; to persist in doing sth in one's own way

to rise through the ranks (as a party cadre)

see 新幹縣|新干县[Xin1 gan4 Xian4]

to have nothing to do with

to dry in the sun

dried fruit

branch; limb (of a tree)

dried up; shriveled; withered

Bi Gan (Chinese god of wealth)

to drain

to dry over a fire; to roast

to tie in to

to remove excess moisture by spinning; to put (clothes) through the spin cycle; to spin-dry