渴 (kě)
Thirsty.
How 渴 is written
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Traditional
- 渴
- Simplified
- 渴 (unchanged)
Components
- 氵 water
- 曰 say
- 勹 wrap
- 人 human
- ㇗ N/A
Common words using 渴
- 渴望 kěwàng
- to thirst for; to long for
- 口渴 kǒukě
- thirsty
- 乾渴 gānkě
- parched; dry mouth
- 如飢似渴 rújīsìkě
- to hunger for sth (idiom); eagerly; to long for sth
- 望梅止渴 wàngméizhǐkě
- lit. to quench one's thirst by thinking of plums (idiom); fig. to console oneself with illusions
- 消渴 xiāokě
- condition characterized by thirst, hunger, frequent urination and weight loss, identified in traditional Chinese medicine with type 2 diabetes
- 渴慕 kěmù
- to thirst for
- 渴求 kěqiú
- to long for; to crave for; to greatly desire
- 解渴 jiěkě
- to quench
- 飢渴 jīkě
- hunger and thirst
渴 in a sentence
我口很渴，想去便利商店買瓶水。
Wǒ kǒu hěn kě, xiǎng qù biànlì shāngdiàn mǎi píng shuǐ.
“I'm very thirsty; I want to go to the convenience store to buy a bottle of water.”
How common is 渴?
渴 is the 1,969th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 97% of all running text.
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