干杯 (乾杯)
gān bēi
Pinyin
Definition
干杯 (乾杯)
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- to drink a toast
- Cheers! (proposing a toast)
- Here's to you!
- Bottoms up!
- lit. dry cup
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 cup
- 2 trophy cup
- 3 classifier for certain containers of liquids: glass, cup
- 1 yin and yang
- 2 heaven and earth
- 3 the universe
- 1 to drink a toast
- 2 Cheers! (proposing a toast)
- 3 Here's to you!
- 4 Bottoms up!
- 5 lit. dry cup
- 1 cup
- 2 (slang) (pun on 悲劇|悲剧[bēi jù], tragedy) so bad
- 3 terrible
- 4 bummer
- 5 fiasco
- 6 debacle
Idioms (10)
好酒贪杯
- 1 fond of the bottle (idiom)
扭转乾坤
- 1 lit. to upend heaven and earth (idiom)
- 2 fig. to change the course of events
- 3 to turn things around
旋乾转坤
- 1 lit. overturning heaven and earth (idiom); earth-shattering
- 2 a radical change
朝乾夕惕
- 1 cautious and diligent all day long (idiom)
杯弓蛇影
- 1 lit. to see a bow reflected in a cup as a snake (idiom); fig. unnecessary suspicions
- 2 overly fearful
Sample Sentences
来来来，喝啊，干杯！
Come on, let’s drink! Bottoms up!
为我们的合作干杯。
Cheers to our collaboration.
为老师们干杯！
Cheers to the teachers!
为中文干杯！
Cheers to Chinese!
干杯
Cheers! ; Bottoms Up!
你随意、我干杯！
You drink as much or as little as you would like, but I'll down my drink (as respect to you).
是不是？那你不喝，就伤我的心了。这样吧，我干杯，你随意，行吗？
Aren't we? So if you don't drink, you'll hurt my feelings. What about this, I'll dry my glass, you can drink as much as you can, OK?
来，大家一起干杯！
Come on! Cheers everybody!
谢谢美女，干杯！
Thank you, pretty lady. Cheers!
干杯！
Cheers!