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

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

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

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

to interfere; to meddle; interference

capable; competent

to meddle; to intervene; intervention

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

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

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

to be irrelevant; to have nothing to do with

raisin; dried grape

tree trunk

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

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

to dry up

stem cell

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

responsibility

(fig.) to squeeze dry; to exhaust

squeaky clean; neat and tidy; efficient

withered; shriveled; dried-up

Uganda

trunk; torso

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

ability; competence

administrator; executive secretary

clothes dryer

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

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

dried beef; beef jerky

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