HSK 6 · Nature

干旱 gānhàn “drought” in Chinese

Traditional 乾旱

What 干旱 means

  1. drought
  2. dry
  3. (of land, climate etc) arid

How to say 干旱

  • 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旱hàn4th tone, falling

干旱 in a sentence

  1. 这是三十年代以来最干旱的六月。

    Zhè shì sānshí niándài yǐlái zuì gānhàn de Liùyuè.

    This is the driest June since the thirties.

    Sentence #885364 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 干旱 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 旱 (hàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
旱hàndrought
  • 日sun · rì
  • 干dry · gān

How to write 干旱

干 3 strokes · 旱 7 strokes

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

Words related to 干旱

Words with 干

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

More words: Nature & Environment

风暴fēngbào · storm风光fēngguāng · scenery丰收fēngshōu · bumper harvest腐烂fǔlàn · to rot耕地gēngdì · arable land鸽子gēzi · pigeon灌溉guàngài · to irrigate光芒guāngmáng · rays of light

FAQs

干旱 (gānhàn) means “drought” or “dry”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it gānhàn: gān with a 1st tone, then hàn 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, 干旱 is written 乾旱. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type ganhan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 干旱 from the suggestions. Typing ganhan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
干旱 is an HSK 6 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.