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枯燥

kū zào

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

枯燥 (kū zào) means "dry and dull". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 枯燥 means

1. dry and dull; uninteresting; tedious

The characters in 枯燥

• 枯kū(of plants) withered; (of wells, rivers etc) dried up; (bound form) dull; boring
• 燥zàodry; parched; impatient; vexed; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. sào) minced meat

Example sentences

• 如果没有了音乐，这个世界一定会变得十分枯燥乏味。
  Rúguǒ méiyǒu le yīnyuè, zhège shìjiè yīdìng huì biànde shífēn kūzào fáwèi.
  If not for music, the world would be a dull place.

Words starting with 枯燥

• 枯燥无味kū zào wú wèitedious; dreary

Where 枯燥 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · kuà–kū (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read kū zào correctly.
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