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烘干

hōnggān

to dry by heating

Wet clothes dry inside a round drum
Memory picture

Characters in this word

烘 hōng

Strokes
10
Radical
火 — fire, flame
Made of
火 fire, flame 共 all, total
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

干 gān

Strokes
3
Radical
十 — ten, tenth
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing

Example phrases

  • 雨季里,实验室必须先把样本烘干,再进行重量测定。 Yǔjì lǐ, shíyànshì bìxū xiān bǎ yàngběn hōnggān, zài jìnxíng zhòngliàng cèdìng. In the rainy season, the laboratory must first dry the samples before measuring their weight.
  • 湿衣服放进机器里烘干,只要半个小时。 Shī yīfu fàng jìn jīqì li hōnggān, zhǐyào bàn ge xiǎoshí. Wet clothes put into the machine dry in only half an hour.
  • 妈妈把苹果切成片,放进烤箱烘干。 Māma bǎ píngguǒ qiē chéng piàn, fàng jìn kǎoxiāng hōnggān. Mother slices the apples and dries them in the oven.

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