干

interference; intervention; meddling

to air; to dry; to desiccate

to drain (off)

to drink up

Usu. in the passive

to deprive of a role, job, etc.

participation; taking part in; participating in; being concerned in

to dry (up); to become parched

to ebb; to recede

dried meat; jerky

dried fish (or shellfish, etc.)

umeboshi; pickled dried ume; pickled dried plum

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

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

abstention; nonintervention; noninterference

drying; dried

hay; dry grass

sexagenary cycle; 60-term cycle of 12 zodiac animals combined with 5 elements in the traditional Chinese calendar; currently used in Japan for years, historically also for days

えと only

12-year Chinese zodiac

frame for drying clothes; clotheshorse

drought; long spell (period) of dry weather

(small crunchy) dried sardines

sun-dried

dried persimmons

Food, cooking

dish of seasonal vegetables and bamboo shoots

wooden lacquered bowl

Kagoshima cuisine

low tide; low water; ebb

strips of dried gourd

Food, cooking

dried slices of steamed sweet potato

excessive meddling (esp. by parents); excessive interference

dried fish; stockfish