干 Stroke Order

to retch

dry cough / hoose

Dry lips and tongue

to cry out loud without tears

rammed earth / adobe house

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

Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang

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

dried ginger

mummy / dried corpse

lit. to exchange weapons of war for gifts of jade and silk (idiom) / fig. to turn hostility into friendship

Dry walkway

enthusiasm for doing sth

to go to war (idiom) / to make a big fuss over sth

ability / competence

anti-interference

interferon

jammer

real practice and solid work

to get rid of

to dry by the sun

squeaky clean / neat and tidy / efficient

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

unclean / filthy / foul-mouthed

arid region

village cadres

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

branch and trunk / limb

withered / dried up

dried firewood