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干燥

gān zào

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 乾燥

干燥 (gān zào) means "dry (weather/climate)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 干燥 means

1. (of weather, climate, soil etc) dry; arid
2. (of skin, mouth etc) dry
3. (fig.) dull; dry; boring
4. (of timber etc) to dry out; to season; to cure

The characters in 干燥

• 干gāndry; dried food; empty; hollow
• 燥zàodry; parched; impatient; vexed; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. sào) minced meat

Example sentences

• 这是片干燥地区，几乎是一片荒漠。
  It is an arid region, almost a desert.
• 这里的夏天很潮湿，另外，冬天很干燥。
  Zhèlǐ de xiàtiān hěn cháoshī, lìngwài, dōngtiān hěn gānzào.
  It gets very humid here in the summer. In the winter, on the other hand, it gets very dry.
• 寒冷干燥，灿烂的阳光，多么美丽的冬日天气!
  Hánlěng gānzào, cànlàn de yángguāng, duōme měilì de dōng rì tiānqì!
  Cold and dry, splendid sunshine, what beautiful winter weather!
• 蝉破土而出后，会蜕皮，等待身体干燥变硬，然后飞到树顶觅食和寻找配偶，它们通过发出响亮的蝉鸣来寻找配偶。
  Once out of the ground, the cicadas molt and wait for their bodies to dry and harden, then they fly to the tops of trees where they feed and look for a mate, which they do by making a loud buzz.

Words starting with 干燥

• 干燥剂gān zào jìdesiccant
• 干燥机gān zào jīa drier

Words containing 干燥

• 大便干燥dà biàn gān zàoconstipated

Where 干燥 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Nature & climate (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gān zào correctly.
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