燥

zào
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dry, parched, impatient, vexed

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

燥 has 火 fire or heat as the meaning part and 喿 zào as the sound part. It first meant dry. The sense then grew to parched.

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Homophones

造zào
make, build, create, produce

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