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Mythic Mandarin

枯 (kū): meaning and stroke order

枯 (kū) means (of plants) withered, (of wells, rivers etc) dried up, (bound form) dull; boring.

枯

Simplified
枯
Traditional
枯 (same form)
Pinyin
kū

Stroke order of 枯

枯

  • kū (of plants) withered; (of wells, rivers etc) dried up
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 枯

  1. kū
    • (of plants) withered
    • (of wells, rivers etc) dried up
    • (bound form) dull; boring
    • (bound form) residue of pressed oilseeds

Radical and structure

枯
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 9 strokes · 木 on the left, 古 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.

Words with 枯

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).