枯 kū
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
枯燥
kūzào
dry, boring
Characters in this word
燥 zào
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- 火 — fire, flame
- Made of
- 火 fire, flame 喿 the sound of birds chirping
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 纯理论内容如果没有案例，会显得十分枯燥。 Chún lǐlùn nèiróng rúguǒ méiyǒu ànlì, huì xiǎnde shífēn kūzào. Purely theoretical content can seem very dry if there are no examples.
- 每天重复同样的动作，工作变得有点枯燥。 Měi tiān chóngfù tóngyàng de dòngzuò, gōngzuò biàn de yǒudiǎn kūzào. Repeating the same movements every day makes the work a bit dull.
- 老师讲得很生动，一点也不枯燥。 Lǎoshī jiǎng de hěn shēngdòng, yìdiǎn yě bù kūzào. The teacher explained things vividly, nothing dull about it.