干裂

乾裂

gānliè

verb #44,224

Meanings

HSK 7-9

天气太干了，我的嘴唇都干裂了。

Tiānqì tài gān le, wǒ de zuǐchún dōu gānliè le.

The air is so dry that my lips are chapped.

HSK 7-9

好久没下雨，田里的土地干裂得像龟壳一样。

Hǎojiǔ méi xiàyǔ, tián lǐ de tǔdì gānliè de xiàng guīké yíyàng.

It hasn't rained for ages, and the soil in the fields is cracked like a turtle shell.

usage

干 here is 'dry', not 干 'to do'. 干裂 works for lips, hands, soil and wood alike; for skin, 皲裂 is the formal and medical word and 皴裂 the colloquial one.

干 gān

裂 liè