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燥

parch
Stroke count: 17

Readings

On readingソウ
Kun readingはしゃ.ぐ

Verbs with «燥»

乾燥する

Meanings

  1. parchRtK
  2. dry up
    肌が乾燥しています。I have dry skin.tatoeba
    当地は夏はひどく湿気が多いが、逆に冬は乾燥する。It gets very humid here in the summer. In the winter, on the other hand, it gets very dry.tatoeba

Popular Usage

乾燥

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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fire (火) · furniture · wooden goods · mouth (口) · tree (木) · wood (木)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 228

Compound words

当地は夏がひどく湿気が多いが、逆に冬は乾燥する。
It gets very humid at home in summer; in winter, on the other hand, it gets very dry.tatoeba
椎茸を乾燥させて保存します。
We keep shiitake mushrooms dry.tatoeba

Stroke Order

17 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 燥

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