Chinese symbol for “uninteresting”
枯燥
kū zào
dry and dull; uninteresting; tedious
The closest CC-CEDICT match for uninteresting is 枯燥 (kū zào), defined as: dry and dull; uninteresting; tedious.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “uninteresting”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 枯燥.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 枯竭 | kū jié | used up; dried up |
| 枯萎 | kū wěi | to wilt; to wither |
| 干枯 (乾枯) | gān kū | withered; shriveled; dried-up |
| 枯死 | kū sǐ | (of a plant) to wither and die; withered and dead |
| 枯木 | kū mù | dead tree |
| 干燥 (乾燥) | gān zào | (of weather, climate, soil etc) dry; arid; (of skin, mouth etc) dry |
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “uninteresting”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.