旱
drought
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How 旱 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
The sun 日 baking a desert 干; 干 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
drought · Heisig RSH #1279
sun + 干 dry
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 旱 as their sound component
These characters all use 旱 (hàn) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 旱 sound component | hàn | dry; drought; desert |
| 焊 | hàn | to solder, to weld |
| 悍 | hàn | courageous, brave; violent |
| 捍 | hàn | to defend, to guard; to ward off |
Words containing 旱
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 干旱土 | gān hàn tǔ | aridisol (soil taxonomy) |
| 大旱之望云霓 | dà hàn zhī wàng yún ní | see 大旱望雲霓|大旱望云霓[da4 han4 wang4 yun2 ni2] |
| 旱鸭子 | hàn yā zi | non-swimmer |
| 天旱 | tiān hàn | drought |
| 滑旱冰 | huá hàn bīng | (roller)blading; roller skating; inline skating |
| 旱情 | hàn qíng | drought conditions |
| 干旱 | gān hàn | drought; (of land, climate etc) arid; dry |
| 旱金莲 | hàn jīn lián | garden nasturtium; Tropaeolum majus |
| 大旱望云霓 | dà hàn wàng yún ní | (lit.) looking for rain clouds in times of drought (idiom); (fig.) to yearn for relief fro… |
| 旱冰 | hàn bīng | roller skating |
| 旱烟 | hàn yān | tobacco (smoked in a long-stemmed pipe) |
| 溜旱冰 | liū hàn bīng | roller blading (sport) |
| 旱象 | hàn xiàng | drought |
| 抗旱 | kàng hàn | drought-resistant; to weather a drought |
| 旱涝保收 | hàn lào bǎo shōu | to provide a stable crop, regardless of drought or flood; to bring a stable income |
| 旱季 | hàn jì | dry season |
| 荒旱 | huāng hàn | drought and famine |
| 旱灾 | hàn zāi | drought |
| 耐旱 | nài hàn | drought tolerant |
| 旱伞 | hàn sǎn | (dialect) parasol |