干货

乾貨
gānhuò
noun #41,693

Meanings

  1. 1 dried food (mushrooms, seafood, fruit, nuts)
  2. 2 solid, useful content with no padding

Examples

HSK 6
Zhèxiē gānhuò yào fàng zài gānzào de dìfang.
These dried foods should be kept somewhere dry.
HSK 7-9
Māma qù gānhuò diàn mǎi le yìxiē xiānggū.
Mom went to the dried-goods shop and bought some shiitake mushrooms.
HSK 7-9
Tā de jiǎngzuò quán shì gānhuò, yí jù fèihuà dōu méiyou.
His lecture was all solid content, without a single wasted word.

Tips

usage
In the second sense 干货 is internet praise for a talk, article or video packed with practical information: 干货满满, 'packed with useful stuff'. Its opposite is 水分, 'water', meaning padding.
mistakes
干 here is 'dry', as in 饼干 (biscuit), not 干 'to do'.

Stroke Order

干 gān
货 huò