Chinese Dictionary

Usage of the character 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

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

cadres and masses
party officials and ordinary people

(Tw) (slang) remark that sounds like it makes sense but is actually nonsense

to quarrel (dialect)

administrator
executive secretary

ability
capable

trunk
torso

to work resourcefully
to apply intelligence

stem
stalk

brain stem

ability
competence

Xingan County in Ji'an 吉安 ( Jí'ān), Jiangxi

competent
capable

high cadre
top party member

trunk
main
core

trunk canal

to become a cadre (e.g. a promotion from shopfloor)

to work; to be employed

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

public business
official work

(coll.) to have a meal

enthusiasm for doing sth

capable
competent

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

capability
capable person

(polite) your business
what brings you?

to proceed tenaciously in spite of obstacles

to rise through the ranks (as a party cadre)

crack (troops)
special (forces)
highly capable

tree trunk

see 幹嘛／干嘛 (gànmá)

school for cadres
May 7 Cadre School 五七幹校／五七干校 ( Wǔ Qī Gànxiào)

police
police cadres

to work hard

word stem (in linguistics)

to act rashly
to act precipitously regardless of the consequences
reckless
foolhardy
daredevil

to tie in to

diaphysis (long segment of a bone)
fig. backbone

cadre
official
officer
manager

to get rid of

(dialect) to come to blows
to have a row

to reassign a cadre
to choose a worker to be promoted to cadre

to work industriously
to get things done

to examine the cadres (i.e. 審查幹部／审查干部 (shěnchágànbù))

capable and experienced

see 幹嘛／干嘛 (gànmá)

main line
trunk line

branch
limb (of a tree)

main stream (of a river)

to go all out
to work energetically

arterial road
main road
main watercourse

capable person

erhua variant of 幹活／干活 (gànhuó)

Durkheim (1858-1917), French sociologist

trunk line (of road, network etc)
backbone (cable)

secretary-general

secretary-general

sb who gets things done
doer

Xingan County in Ji'an 吉安 ( Jí'ān), Jiangxi

capable

to adopt confrontational posture
to meet head-on
to compete

Shinkansen (Japanese high-speed train)

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

diàogànshēng

worker chosen to become a cadre and sent to complete his schooling

stem cell

Balkan

máitóukǔgàn

to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work
to make an all-out effort
up to the neck in work

zhǔgànwǎnglù

core network
backbone network

xǐshǒubùgàn

to totally stop doing something
to reform one's ways

jīnggàngāoxiào

top-notch efficiency

gǔgànwǎnglù

backbone network

zhǔgànwǎngluò

core network

jīngmíngqiánggàn

intelligent and capable (idiom)

shuōgànjiùgàn

to do what needs to be done, without delay

Wǔ Qī Gànxiào

May 7 cadre school (farm where urban cadres had to undertake manual labor and study ideology during the Cultural Revolution) (abbr. for 五七幹部學校／五七干部学校 ( Wǔ Qī Gànbù Xuéxiào))

yǒuhéguìgàn

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

jīngmíngnénggàn

able and efficient

Samarkand, city in Uzbekistan
also written 撒馬爾罕／撒马尔罕 ( Sāmǎ'ěrhǎn)

Bā'ěrgàn Bàndǎo

巴尔干半岛

[巴爾幹半島]

Balkan Peninsula

zàoxuègànxìbāo

造血干细胞

[造血幹細胞]

blood generating stem cells (in bone marrow)

jiānchōngzhìgànxìbāo

间充质干细胞

[間充質幹細胞]

mesenchymal stem cell MSC (in cell biology)

Wǔ Qī Gànbù Xuéxiào

五七干部学校

[五七幹部學校]

May 7 Cadre School (farm where urban cadres had to undertake manual labor and study ideology during the Cultural Revolution) (abbr. to 五七幹校／五七干校 ( Wǔ Qī Gànxiào))

chūmǎnqín,gànmǎndiǎn

出满勤，干满点

[出滿勤，幹滿點]

to be assiduous and work full hours