The kanji 燥: meaning, readings and stroke order

燥

Meaning: dry out
On reading: ソウ sou
Kun reading: —
Strokes: 17
Radical: 火 fire
Level: Level 7 · junior high school

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: khô ráo (táo)
Japanese: かわく。
Korean: 마르다 (조)
Chinese: 干燥

Readings, words and example sentences

ソウ sou · on reading

乾かん燥そう
dryness, being dry
冬は空気が 乾かん燥そうします。
The air gets dry in winter.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.