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干涸 (gān hé): meaning and stroke order

干涸 (gān hé) means to dry up.

干涸

Simplified
干涸
Traditional
乾涸
Pinyin
gān hé

Stroke order of 干涸

干

  • gān old variant of 乾|干[gan1]
  • Gān surname Gan
  • gān dry; dried food
  • 3 strokes
  • Traditional form: 乹

Stroke by stroke

涸

  • hé to dry; to dry up
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 干涸

  1. gān hé Traditional 乾涸
    • to dry up

Radicals of the characters

干
Radical 干 (Kangxi radical 51) · 3 strokes · 一 on top, 十 below
涸
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 11 strokes · 氵 on the left, 固 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

干涸 in our stories

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  • 那一年，天下大旱，太阳像一团火挂在天上，河水干涸，庄稼枯死，人们热得无处躲藏。

    nà yì nián tiānxià dàhàn tàiyáng xiàng yì tuán huǒ guà zài tiān shàng héshuǐ gānhé zhuāngjia kūsǐ rénmen rè de wúchù duǒcáng

    That year a great drought struck the world: the sun hung in the sky like a ball of fire, the rivers dried up, the crops withered, and people had nowhere to hide from the heat.

    From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 干涸

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).