燥
dry; parched; impatient; vexed; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [sao4]) minced meat
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How 燥 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
火 (semantic, “fire”) + 喿 (phonetic, sào)
How to remember it
parched · Heisig RSH #2334
火 fire + wood pulp
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 喿
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 喿 (sào) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 喿 sound component | sào | the sound of birds chirping |
| 操 | cāo | to conduct, to manage, to run |
| 躁 | zào | tense, irritable; rash, hot-tempered |
| 澡 | zǎo | to wash, to bathe |
| 臊 | sào | shy, bashful; rank, fetid; the smell of urine |
| 橾 | shū | the axle hole in the center of a wheel (archaic) |
| 缲 | qiāo | to spool, to reel |
Words containing 燥
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大便干燥 | dà biàn gān zào | constipated |
| 口干舌燥 | kǒu gān shé zào | lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much |
| 干燥机 | gān zào jī | a drier |
| 干燥剂 | gān zào jì | desiccant |
| 枯燥无味 | kū zào wú wèi | tedious; dreary |
| 燥子 | zào zi | minced meat; Taiwan pr. [sao4 zi5] |
| 燥热 | zào rè | uncomfortably hot and dry; stiflingly hot; (of the body) flushed and feverishly warm; (fig… |
| 干燥 | gān zào | (of weather, climate, soil etc) dry; arid; (of skin, mouth etc) dry; (fig.) dull; dry; bor… |
| 肉燥 | ròu zào | (Tw) minced pork stewed with soy sauce and spices (served with rice or noodles, or as a fi… |
| 秋燥 | qiū zào | autumn dryness disease (TCM) |
| 暴燥 | bào zào | variant of 暴躁[bao4 zao4] |
| 浮燥 | fú zào | variant of 浮躁[fu2 zao4] |
| 焦燥 | jiāo zào | variant of 焦躁[jiao1 zao4] |
| 枯燥 | kū zào | dry and dull; uninteresting; tedious |