燥
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dry; parched; impatient; vexed; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [sao4]) minced meat
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- 火 +13
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 燥
- Common rank
- #2,773
- Unicode
- U+71E5
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
parched · Heisig RSH #2334
火 fire + wood pulp
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 燥
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大便干燥 | constipated | |
| 口干舌燥 | lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much | |
| 干燥机 | a drier | |
| 干燥剂 | desiccant | |
| 枯燥无味 | tedious; dreary | |
| 燥子 | minced meat; Taiwan pr. [sao4 zi5] | |
| 燥热 | uncomfortably hot and dry; stiflingly hot; (of the body) flushed and feverishly warm; (fig… | |
| 干燥 | (of weather, climate, soil etc) dry; arid; (of skin, mouth etc) dry; (fig.) dull; dry; bor… | |
| 肉燥 | (Tw) minced pork stewed with soy sauce and spices (served with rice or noodles, or as a fi… | |
| 秋燥 | autumn dryness disease (TCM) | |
| 暴燥 | variant of 暴躁[bao4 zao4] | |
| 浮燥 | variant of 浮躁[fu2 zao4] | |
| 焦燥 | variant of 焦躁[jiao1 zao4] | |
| 枯燥 | dry and dull; uninteresting; tedious |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 喿 — compare how they read.