枯萎 kūwěi▶ layu

Stroke order

枯萎 is written in 20 strokes across 2 characters.

• 枯 — 9 strokes
• 萎 — 11 strokes

Senses

1. to wilt
2. to wither
3. wilted
4. withered
5. drained
6. enervated
7. exhausted

Related words

• 枯燥Membosankan

枯萎 is pronounced kūwěi and means “layu”. It belongs to the HSK 6 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 枯萎 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.