燥 — Chinese character
燥
zào
arid, dry, parched; quick-tempered
- Pinyin
- zào
- Radical
- 86 ⽕ (Fire)
- Strokes
- 17
- Components
- 火 喿
- Formation
- pictophonetic — fire; meaning component 火; sound component 喿
- Japanese
- 燥 as a kanji
Common words with 燥
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 干燥 (乾燥) | gān zào | (of weather, climate, soil etc) dry; arid; (of skin, mouth etc) dry |
| 枯燥 | kū zào | dry and dull; uninteresting; tedious |
| 燥热 (燥熱) | zào rè | uncomfortably hot and dry; stiflingly hot; (of the body) flushed and feverishly warm; (fig.) agitated; restless; irritable; (TCM) dry-heat |
| 枯燥无味 (枯燥無味) | kū zào wú wèi | tedious; dreary |
| 干燥剂 (乾燥劑) | gān zào jì | desiccant |
| 口干舌燥 (口乾舌燥) | kǒu gān shé zào | lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much |
| 干燥机 (乾燥機) | gān zào jī | a drier |
| 秋燥 | qiū zào | autumn dryness disease (TCM) |
| 焦燥 | jiāo zào | variant of 焦躁 (jiāo zào) |
| 暴燥 | bào zào | variant of 暴躁 (bào zào) |
| 肉燥 | ròu zào | (Tw) minced pork stewed with soy sauce and spices (served with rice or noodles, or as a filling in buns etc); Taiwan pr. [rou4 sao4] |
| 大便干燥 (大便乾燥) | dà biàn gān zào | constipated |
English words written with 燥
燥 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Art of War 1
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