HSK 6 · Adjectives

枯燥 kūzào “dull” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 枯燥 means

  1. dull
  2. boring
  3. dry
  4. dry and dull
  5. uninteresting
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • tedious

How to say 枯燥

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale枯kū1st 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

枯燥 in a sentence

  1. 这本书太枯燥了，我看不下去。

    Zhè běn shū tài kūzào le, wǒ kàn bu xiàqu.

    This book is too dull; I can’t keep reading it.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 学语法不一定是枯燥的。

    Xué yǔfǎ bù yídìng shì kūzào de.

    Learning grammar doesn’t have to be boring.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 枯燥 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 枯 (kū) with each of its parts in a different colour
枯kūwithered
  • 木tree · mù
  • 古old · gǔ
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 枯燥

枯 9 strokes · 燥 17 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 枯燥

Words with 枯

枯萎kūwěi · to wither

Words with 燥

干燥gānzào · dry (weather

More words: Adjectives

空洞kōngdòng · empty空前绝后kōngqiánjuéhòu · unprecedented and unrepeatable宽敞kuānchang · spacious宽容kuānróng · tolerant懒惰lǎnduò · lazy牢固láogù · firm类似lèisì · similar冷酷lěngkù · cold-hearted

FAQs

枯燥 (kūzào) means “dull” or “boring”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it kūzào: kū 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.
Yes. 枯燥 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kuzao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 枯燥 from the suggestions. Typing kuzao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
枯燥 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.