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燥 — parch, dry up

そう燥 parch

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 17 strokes

U+71E5 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1819 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #228 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

parch
dry up

word

そう sou On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

乾(かん) 燥(そう) kansou dryness

Appears in idioms

無味乾燥四字熟語

nothingness, flavor, drought, parch

Stroke order

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Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

ひ火 fire #86

喿 chirp

Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.