何干
hé gān
Pinyin

Definition

何干
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hé gān
  1. what business?

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

gān
  1. 1 old variant of 乾|干[gān]
gān jìng
  1. 1 clean
  2. 2 neat
rèn hé
  1. 1 any
  2. 2 whatever
  3. 3 whichever
  4. 4 whatsoever
  1. 1 surname He
hé bì
  1. 1 there is no need
  2. 2 why should
rú hé
  1. 1 how
  2. 2 what way
  3. 3 what
gàn má
  1. 1 what are you doing?
  2. 2 whatever for?
  3. 3 why on earth?
wèi hé
  1. 1 why
gān mā
  1. 1 adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
gān bēi
  1. 1 to drink a toast
  2. 2 Cheers! (proposing a toast)
  3. 3 Here's to you!
  4. 4 Bottoms up!
  5. 5 lit. dry cup
gān kū
  1. 1 withered
  2. 2 dried up
gān zào
  1. 1 to dry (of weather, paint, cement etc)
  2. 2 desiccation
  3. 3 dull
  4. 4 uninteresting
  5. 5 arid
gān diē
  1. 1 adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
gān cuì
  1. 1 straightforward
  2. 2 clear-cut
  3. 3 blunt (e.g. statement)
  4. 4 you might as well
  5. 5 simply
gān liè
  1. 1 (of dry soil, skin etc) to crack
  2. 2 to chap
hé yǐ
  1. 1 (literary) why
  2. 2 how
hé cháng
  1. 1 (rhetorical question) when?
  2. 2 how?
  3. 3 it's not that...
hé zài
  1. 1 where?
  2. 2 what place?
hé fáng
  1. 1 what harm is there in (doing sth)
hé fāng
  1. 1 where?

Idioms (20)

一干二净
yī gān èr jìng
  1. 1 thoroughly (idiom)
  2. 2 completely
  3. 3 one and all
  4. 4 very clean
乳臭未干
rǔ xiù wèi gān
  1. 1 smell of mother's milk not yet dried (idiom); immature and inexperienced
  2. 2 still wet behind the ears
干打雷,不下雨
gān dǎ léi , bù xià yǔ
  1. 1 all thunder but no rain (idiom)
  2. 2 a lot of noise but no action
人生何处不相逢
rén shēng hé chù bù xiāng féng
  1. 1 it's a small world (idiom)
何乐而不为
hé lè ér bù wéi
  1. 1 What can you have against it? (idiom)
  2. 2 We should do this.
  3. 3 Go for it!
何济于事
hé jì yú shì
  1. 1 of what use is it
  2. 2 (idiom)
化干戈为玉帛
huà gān gē wéi yù bó
  1. 1 lit. to exchange weapons of war for gifts of jade and silk (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to turn hostility into friendship
口干舌燥
kǒu gān shé zào
  1. 1 lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much
唾面自干
tuò miàn zì gān
  1. 1 to be spat on in the face and let it dry by itself, not wiping it off (idiom); to turn the other cheek
  2. 2 to drain the cup of humiliation
埋头苦干
mái tóu kǔ gàn
  1. 1 to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work
  2. 2 to make an all-out effort
  3. 3 up to the neck in work
外强中干
wài qiáng zhōng gān
  1. 1 strong in appearance but weak in reality (idiom)
大动干戈
dà dòng gān gē
  1. 1 to go to war (idiom)
  2. 2 to make a big fuss over sth
天涯何处无芳草
tiān yá hé chù wú fāng cǎo
  1. 1 there are plenty more fish in the sea (idiom)
情何以堪
qíng hé yǐ kān
  1. 1 how can this be endured! (idiom)
成也萧何,败也萧何
chéng yě Xiāo Hé , bài yě Xiāo Hé
  1. 1 lit. raised up by Xiao He, cast down by Xiao He (idiom), alluding to Han Xin 韓信|韩信[Hán Xìn] being made Grand General 大將軍|大将军[dà jiāng jūn]
  2. 2 fig. a situation where one's success and failure are both due to the same factor
早知今日何必当初
zǎo zhī jīn rì hé bì dāng chū
  1. 1 if I (you, she, he...) had known it would come to this, I (you, she, he...) would not have acted thus (idiom)
  2. 2 to regret vainly one's past behavior
有宝何必人前夸
yǒu bǎo hé bì rén qián kuā
  1. 1 There is no need to boast about one's treasures. (idiom)
欲加之罪,何患无辞
yù jiā zhī zuì , hé huàn wú cí
  1. 1 If you want to condemn sb, don't worry about the pretext (idiom, from Zuozhuan 左傳|左传); one can always trump up a charge against sb
  2. 2 Give a dog a bad name, then hang him.
没有规矩,何以成方圆
méi yǒu guī ju , hé yǐ chéng fāng yuán
  1. 1 without rules, how can anything be done (idiom); one must follow some rules
烈火干柴
liè huǒ gān chái
  1. 1 lit. intense fire to dry wood (idiom); inferno in a woodpile
  2. 2 fig. consuming passion between lovers

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