干燥 gānzào▶ Kering

Stroke order

干燥 is written in 20 strokes across 2 characters.

• 干 — 3 strokes
• 燥 — 17 strokes

Senses

1. (of weather, climate, soil etc) dry; arid
2. (of skin, mouth etc) dry
3. (fig.) dull; dry; boring
4. (of timber etc) to dry out; to season; to cure

Related words

• 干脆hanya; semata-mata
• 能干mampu
• 干活儿mengerjakan pekerjaan
• 干kering
• 干劲Mengemudi
• 干扰mengganggu

干燥 is pronounced gānzào and means “Kering”. It belongs to the HSK 5 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 干燥 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.