乾

to get dry

Interjection

cheers; bottoms-up; prosit

Common noun; Noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru; Intransitive verb

toast; drink (in honor or celebration of someone or something)

Common noun; Noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru; Intransitive verb

drinking one's glass dry

to air; to dry; to desiccate

to drain (off)

to drink up

Usu. in the passive

to deprive of a role, job, etc.

Noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru; Transitive verb; Intransitive verb

dryness; aridity; drying (e.g. clothes); dehydration; desiccation

Adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)

insipidity

to dry (clothes, etc.); to desiccate

to dry (up); to become parched

to ebb; to recede

qian (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: heaven, northwest)

dried meat; jerky

dried fish (or shellfish, etc.)

to drink up; to drink to the last drop; to drink (a glass) dry; to drain (one's glass); to empty; to down (a drink)

to be thirsty

to dry up; to shrivel (up); to go (completely) dry

to wither (of talents, feelings, etc.); to become desiccated (e.g. of ideas)

dry wind

drying; dried

drying; dryness

drying machine; dryer; desiccator

hay; dry grass

half-dried

cracker; hard biscuit; hardtack

sun-dried

dry cell battery

dried persimmons

instant drying

dry cough; hacking cough

intentional cough (e.g. to get someone's attention)