涸 — Chinese character
涸
hé
tired, exhausted; dried up
- Pinyin
- hé
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 氵 固
- Formation
- ideographic — To run out 氵 of strength 固; 固 also provides the pronunciation
- Japanese
- 涸 as a kanji
Common words with 涸
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 干涸 (乾涸) | gān hé | to dry up |
| 涸泽而渔 (涸澤而漁) | hé zé ér yú | see 竭泽而渔 (jié zé ér yú) |
| 涸辙之鲋 (涸轍之鮒) | hé zhé zhī fù | lit. a fish in a dried-out rut (idiom); fig. a person in dire straits |
| 濡沫涸辙 (濡沫涸轍) | rú mò hé zhé | to help each other out in hard times (idiom) |
涸 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 2
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.