乾貨 gān huò

DEFINITIONS

  1. dried food (including dried fruits, mushrooms and seafoods such as shrimp and abalone)
  2. (fig.) (coll.) knowledge presented in readily assimilable form
  3. just what you want to know: no more, no less (no 水分[shui3 fen1])

CHARACTERS

乾 gān dry; first hexagram; warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male)
貨 huò goods, commodities, products