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枯死 (kū sǐ): meaning and stroke order

枯死 (kū sǐ) means (of a plant) to wither and die; withered and dead.

枯死

Simplified
枯死
Traditional
枯死 (same form)
Pinyin
kū sǐ

Stroke order of 枯死

枯

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

Stroke by stroke

死

  • sǐ to die; impassable
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 枯死

  1. kū sǐ
    • (of a plant) to wither and die; withered and dead

Radicals of the characters

枯
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 9 strokes · 木 on the left, 古 on the right
死
Radical 歹 (Kangxi radical 78) · 6 strokes · built from 歹 and 匕

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.

枯死 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 枯死

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).