燥
zào HSK7

dry

燥 zào
dry adjective
dry; parched; lacking moisture

这里的气候太燥，我的皮肤都干裂了。

zhè​lǐ de qì​hòu tài zào, wǒ de pí​fū dōu gān​liè le.

The climate here is too dry, causing my skin to crack.

impatient adjective
impatient; vexed; restless in spirit

他这人性格太燥，遇事不够冷静。

tā zhè rén xìng​gé tài zào, yù​shì bù gòu lěng​jìng.

He is too hot-tempered and lacks calmness when facing problems.

minced meat noun
finely chopped or minced meat, typically used as a topping

这碗肉燥饭的味道非常正宗。

zhè wǎn ròu zào fàn de wèi​dao fēi​cháng zhèng​zōng.

The flavor of this bowl of braised pork rice is very authentic.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,613th most common 16.4 per million
Movie subtitles
2,689th most common 6.08 per million appears in 4% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.19 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
6.83 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
17
Unicode
U+71E5

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)