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Meaning of 枯

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Pinyin:
English Definition: dried up
Chinese Definition:
①失去水分,水全没有了:干枯。枯萎。枯槁。枯荣。枯鱼衔索(串在绳索上的干鱼,形容存日不多)。
②没趣味,无生趣:枯燥。枯肠(喻枯涩贫乏的思路)。
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Total strokes: 9; Radical:
Ideographic: An old tree ; also provides the pronunciation
Character Formation:
  • Left to right
    • [ ] tree; wood, lumber; wooden
    • [ ] old, classic, ancient
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Example Words
枯竭 jié used up; dried up; exhausted (of resources)
枯燥 zào dry and dull; uninteresting; dry-as-dust
干枯 gān withered; dried up
枯萎 wěi to wilt; to wither; wilted; withered; drained; enervated; exhausted
枯草 cǎo withered grass; dry grass
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Example Sentences
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He hid the trunk in the wood under some dry leaves, and then went into the town: he could do this very well, for the Turks always go about dressed in dressing-gowns and slippers, as he was himself.
2
He found them present in the remains of dead animals many years after the animal's body had withered away to dust.
3
Near the dry river's water-mark we found
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20In the morning, as they went along, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots.
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6But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.