HSK 5 · Adjectives

干燥 gānzào “dry (weather” in Chinese

Traditional 乾燥

What 干燥 means

  1. dry (weather, skin, air)
  2. (of weather, climate, soil etc) dry
  3. arid
  4. (of skin, mouth etc) dry
  5. (fig.) dull
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • dry
  • boring
  • (of timber etc) to dry out
  • to season
  • to cure

How to say 干燥

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale干gān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale燥zào4th tone, falling

干燥 in a sentence

  1. 这里的夏天很潮湿，另外，冬天很干燥。

    Zhèlǐ de xiàtiān hěn cháoshī, lìngwài, dōngtiān hěn gānzào.

    Summer here is very humid; on top of that, winter is very dry.

    Sentence #334378 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 这是片干燥地区，几乎是一片荒漠。

    Zhè shì piàn gānzào dìqū, jīhū shì yí piàn huāngmò.

    This is a dry region – almost a desert.

    Sentence #10011733 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 寒冷干燥，灿烂的阳光，多么美丽的冬日天气！

    Hánlěng gānzào, cànlàn de yángguāng, duōme měilì de dōngrì tiānqì!

    Cold and dry, with brilliant sunshine – what beautiful winter weather!

    Sentence #816881 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 干燥 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 干 (gān) with each of its parts in a different colour
干gāndry
  • 一one · yī
  • 十ten · shí

Memory aidDrawn from a forked stick used as a weapon or shield. As a simplified character it also stands for 乾 “dry” and 幹 “to do”.

The character 燥 (zào) with each of its parts in a different colour
燥zàodry; parched
  • 火fire · huǒMeaning part
  • 喿the sound of birds chirping · sàoSound part

火 hints at the meaning (fire); 喿 (sào) hints at the sound. Compare it with zào.

How to write 干燥

干 3 strokes · 燥 17 strokes

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干燥 (gānzào) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 干燥 (gānzào). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 干燥

Words with 干

干净gānjìng · clean干gān · dry饼干bǐnggān · biscuit干杯gānbēi · to drink a toast干脆gāncuì · simply能干nénggàn · capable干活儿gànhuór · to work干扰gānrǎo · to disturb干涉gānshè · to interfere干预gānyù · to intervene

Words with 燥

枯燥kūzào · dull

More words: Adjectives

单纯dānchún · simple单调dāndiào · monotonous淡dàn · light (in taste or colour)地道dìdao · authentic高级gāojí · high level好客hàokè · hospitable滑huá · slippery宽kuān · wide

FAQs

干燥 (gānzào) means “dry (weather, skin, air)” or “(of weather, climate, soil etc) dry”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it gānzào: gān with a 1st tone, then zào with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 干燥 is written 乾燥. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type ganzao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 干燥 from the suggestions. Typing ganzao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
干燥 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.