Chinese Character Wiki

涸

hé

dried up

To run out 氵 of strength 固; 固 also provides the pronunciation

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

固 sound,meaning component

固  Sound Meaning component

gù

  

to become solid

Evolution

涸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
涸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
涸 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

涸  

hé

dried up; exhausted, tired; dry; to dry; to dry up

Most common words with 涸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

干涸

to dry up

涸

to dry

涸泽而渔

lit. to drain the pond to get at the fish (idiom)

涸辙之鲋

fig. a person in dire straits

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3865th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+6DB8

Shuowen

“涸，渴也。从水，固聲。讀若狐貈之貈。，涸亦从水、鹵、舟。”


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