干 gān
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 十 — ten, tenth
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
干枯
gānkū
dried up; withered
Characters in this word
枯 kū
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 长期缺水使河床彻底干枯，曾经的渔村也失去了生计基础。 Chángqī quē shuǐ shǐ héchuáng chèdǐ gānkū, céngjīng de yúcūn yě shīqù le shēngjì jīchǔ. Long-term water shortage completely dried up the riverbed, and the former fishing village also lost the basis of its livelihood.
- 院子里的草因为太久没下雨而干枯了。 Yuànzi lǐ de cǎo yīnwèi tài jiǔ méi xià yǔ ér gānkū le. The grass in the yard has withered because it hasn't rained for so long.
- 秋天的树叶变得干枯，一踩就碎。 Qiūtiān de shùyè biàn de gānkū, yì cǎi jiù suì. Autumn leaves become dry and brittle and crumble at a single step.