渴kě
thirsty, parched; to yearn, to pine for. 12 strokes, radical 氵, first met in HSK 5.
Pinyin kěStrokes 12Radical 氵Band HSK 5Words 1
How to write 渴
Strokes 1–3 write 氵, then strokes 4–12 write 曷.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 渴 · the stroke-order rules
What 渴 is made of
氵 (shuǐ, water) and 曷 (hé, what).
氵 carries the meaning — water — and 曷 carries the sound.
Words that use 渴
| 渴望 | to yearn for, long for 指内心非常迫切地盼望 大家渴望为流浪犬伸出援手。Everyone longed to lend the stray dog a hand. Lesson 448, 和乐致祥 · 文武兼修与科学攻坚 · Cultural Elegance & Scientific Frontiers |
Characters that share the sound part 曷
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 氵
All 76 of them, and what the radical means, on the 氵 radical page.