Character Details
| thirst | Ascii: — | w366 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 渴 | kě | kuh | 3 | 氵 (water) + 曷 (why) → thirsty | 渴 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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You are bound to be thirsty at the end of a siesta so have some water close by. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 3] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - I'm thirsty | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| — - 氏 | shì | water | clan | clan mark | 氏 民 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 氵 (water) + 曷 (why) → thirsty | 水 (semantic) | 曷 (phonetic) | phonetic from 曷 | ||||||||