zào

dry; parched

impatient; vexed; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [sao4]) minced meat

fire (火) + phonetic (喿) = dry and parched

Fire dries things out, so 火 anchors the meaning of parched and dry. 喿 primarily gives the sound zào; no need to read meaning into it.

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FireSemantic

冬天空气很干,皮肤容易变干。

dōng tiān kōng qì hěn gān zào, pí fū róng yì biàn gān.

In winter the air is very dry, and skin easily becomes dry.

这里气候干,喝水要比平时多。

zhè lǐ qì hòu gān zào, hē shuǐ yào bǐ píng shí duō.

The climate here is dry, so you need to drink more water than usual.

Words with 燥

干燥

gān zào

(of weather, climate, soil etc) dry; arid

干燥剂

gān zào jì

desiccant

干燥机

gān zào jī

a drier

口干舌燥

kǒu gān shé zào

lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much

大便干燥

dà biàn gān zào

constipated

暴燥

bào zào

variant of 暴躁[bao4 zao4]

枯燥

kū zào

dry and dull; uninteresting; tedious

枯燥无味

kū zào wú wèi

tedious

浮燥

fú zào

variant of 浮躁[fu2 zao4]

焦燥

jiāo zào

variant of 焦躁[jiao1 zao4]

燥子

zào zi

minced meat

燥热

zào rè

uncomfortably hot and dry; stiflingly hot; (of the body) flushed and feverishly warm; (fig.) agitated; restless; irritable; (TCM) dry-heat

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