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饼干bǐng gàn
biscuit
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 饼干 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 餅乾 | ||
| 餅乾 | bǐnggān | |
| 1. n. biscuit; cracker; cookie | ||
| English > Chinese | ||
| biscuit | ||
| 1. 饼干 | ||
| Components | ||
| 饼 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 餅 | ||
| 餅 | bǐng | |
| 1. pastry; biscuit; cookie | ||
| 月餅 - mooncake | ||
| 曲奇餅 - cookie | ||
| 2. any round and flat pancake-like object | ||
| 茶餅 - dried tea leaves pressed into the shape of a disc | ||
| 肉餅 - meat patty | ||
| 麵餅 - disc (block) of instant noodles | ||
| 3. (Cantonese) | ||
| 呢ni1 餅 帶daai3-2 - this cassette | ||
| 4. (Cantonese) Western-style pastry (usually cake) | ||
| Synonyms: 西餅 | ||
| 5. (Cantonese, figuratively) pie (the whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts) | ||
| 6. (Min Dong) | ||
| 三 餅 金 | ||
| 干 | gàn | |
| 1. Variant of 乾 | ||
| 2. Simplified form of 幹 | ||
| 3. Variant of 豻 | ||
| 4. Variant of 贛 | ||
| 乾 | gān | |
| 1. dry; moistureless; waterless; arid | ||
| 我 喉嚨 很 乾gān。 - My throat feels dry. | ||
| 2. to dry; to exhaust | ||
| 3. (colloquial) to drain one's glass; bottoms up | ||
| 4. dried up; exhausted; drained | ||
| 5. (of voice) dry and coarse | ||
| 6. dried-up food | ||
| 7. adopted; adoptive; foster | ||
| 8. in vain; for nothing | ||
| 9. falsely; superficially | ||
| 10. not sweet; lacking sweetness | ||
| 11. first of the eight trigrams (bagua) used in Taoist cosmology, represented by the symbol ☰ | ||
| 12. first hexagram of the I Ching, represented by the symbol ䷀ | ||
| 乾乾道 - ways of heaven; natural law | ||
| 13. (Min) Alternative form of 焦 (-, t=dry) | ||
| 幹 | gàn | |
| 1. main part of something; body; trunk | ||
| 樹幹 - trunk of a plant | ||
| 軀幹 - body of animals | ||
| 幹道 - main road; high street | ||
| 2. (colloquial) to do | ||
| 你 在 幹 什麼？ - What are you doing? | ||
| 3. to work | ||
| 幹活 - to work | ||
| 你 是 幹 什麼 的？ - What is your job? | ||
| 4. (vulgar) to fuck; to engage in sexual intercourse | ||
| 幹恁娘！ - Fuck your mother! , MN | ||
| 幹.你.媽！ - Fuck your mother! | ||
| 5. (vulgar) to kill | ||
| 幹掉 他！ - Kill him! | ||
| 6. (vulgar chiefly Taiwan) to steal | ||
| 誰 幹 走 了 我 的 筆？！ - Who stole my pen?! | ||
| 7. (vulgar chiefly Taiwan) to blame; to condemn | ||
| 公 幹 - criticized by everyone | ||
| 8. (Taiwan, vulgar, colloquial) (Expressing dismay or discontent.) | ||
| 9. just | ||
| 10. calm | ||
| 11. Alternative form of 干 (heavenly stem) | ||
| 12. dead | ||
| 13. Alternative form of 韓 (fence around a well) | ||
| 豻 | ||
| 贛 | gàn | |
| 1. (place, zh, t=Gan River, river, p/Jiangxi, c/China) | ||
| 2. (zh-alt-name, 江西, Jiangxi, a province of China.) | ||
| 3. Gan; Gan Chinese | ||
| 贛語 - Gan (a variant of the Chinese language) | ||
| 4. Variant of 戇 | ||
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Pronunciation
bǐng gàn
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