adjective #23,174

Meanings

  1. 1 withered
  2. 2 dried up
  3. 3 desiccated
  4. 4 dead (of plants)

Examples

Qiūtiān dào le, shùyè kū huáng diāoluò.
Autumn has arrived; the leaves have withered yellow and fallen.
Jiǔ hàn wú yǔ, héliú dōu kū le.
After a long drought without rain, the rivers have all dried up.

Tips

register
is more classical and literary than (gān, dry) or 干枯 (gānkū, dried up). It often appears in poetry and formal writing to evoke desolation or the passage of time, as in (withered wood) and (dried-up well).

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