燥 – parch, dry up

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The kanji 燥 means parch, dry up. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ソウ (sou); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is はしゃ.ぐ (hashagu). It is written with 17 strokes, under radical 火 (no. 86).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ソウ	sou
Kun’yomi	はしゃ.ぐ	hashagu

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 火 (Kangxi radical 86). Components: 火・口・木・品.

Words using 燥

乾燥かんそうdryness

Example sentences

椎茸を乾燥させて保存します。

We keep shiitake mushrooms dry.

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Kanji with the same radical

点無然火熱爆為燃焦災焼照炎煙炭烈

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.