枯 kū

1. kū adjective withered; dried up
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '枯' adj 2; Unihan '枯')
2. kū adjective dead
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Of plants (Guoyu '枯' adj 1)
3. kū adjective withered; haggard
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '枯' adj 3)
4. kū noun residue from pressing plants for oil
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '枯' n 1)

Contained in

• 枯木逢春 the spring comes upon a withered tree; to get a new lease on life; to be revived
• 搜索枯肠(搜索枯腸) to rack one's brains (for apt wording etc)
• 枯木 a dead tree
• 海枯石烂(海枯石爛) seas dry, stone disintegrates; forever
• 干枯(乾枯) withered; dried up
• 枯草 withered grass; dry grass
• 石烂海枯(石爛海枯) seas dry, stone disintegrates; forever
• 枯水 scarce water; low water level
• 黑枯茗 black cumin; Nigella sativa
• 荣枯(榮枯) growing and withering ; rise and fall
• 神枯 spiritual desolation
• 焦枯 to be withered in the heat
• 泽及枯骨(澤及枯骨) so kind as to even bury stray bones; kindness extending to all things
• 枯叶剂(枯葉劑) Agent Orange (herbicide)
• 枯草杆菌(枯草桿菌) bacillus subtilis
• 枯寂 dull and lonely
• 枯涩(枯澀) dry and dull
• 枯竭 to use up; to dry up; to exhaust
• 枯草热(枯草熱) hay fever
• 枯水期 period of low water level (winter in north China)
• 枯朽 withered and rotten
• 枯干(枯乾) withered
• 集苑集枯 some gather in a garden, some gather in a desolate place
• 枯萎病 blight
• 枯萎 to wilt; to wither; wilted; withered; drained; enervated; exhausted
• 枯燥 dry and dull; uninteresting ; dry; arid
• 枯叶(枯葉) dead leaf; withered leaf
• 百草枯 paraquat
• 枯茗 cumin
• 冢中枯骨(塚中枯骨) dried bones in burial mound; dead and buried
• 枯槁 withered; haggard; languid
• 枯燥无味(枯燥無味) tedious; dreary

Also contained in

枯木裏龙吟 、 枯木龙吟 、 巴枯宁主义

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• Full Text Canon of Supreme Mystery 太玄經 — count: 10
• 卷三十四　　　　志第二十四　　五行一 Volume 34 Treatises 28: Five Elements 1 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 9
• 卷四十八 列傳第四十二 儒林 Volume 48: Confucian Scholars Book of Liang 梁書 — count: 8
• 第六十七回 Chapter 67 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 7
• 第四十一回 Chapter 41 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 6
• 卷之四　詩五言 Scroll 4: Five Character Form Poetry Tao Yuanming Collected Poems 陶淵明集 — count: 6
• 卷二十八 志第十八 五行中 Volume 28 Treatises 18: Five Elements Part Two Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 6
• 卷三十五　列傳第二十三:　王慧龍 鄭羲 Volume 35 Biographies 23: Wang Huilong, Zheng Xi History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 5
• 卷69　列傳第34 王劭 袁充 Volume 69 Biographies 34: Wang Shao, Yuan Chong Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 5
• 卷21　志第16 天文下 Volume 21 Treatises 16: Astronomy 3 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 5

Collocations

• 枯旱 (枯旱) 枯旱而鉉 — Guanzi 管子, 水地第三十九 Chapter 39: Water and Earth — count: 18
• 枯骨 (枯骨) 春不收枯骨朽脊 — Guanzi 管子, 度地第五十七 Chapter 57: Crossing Land — count: 10
• 枯杨 (枯楊) 枯楊生稊 — Book of Changes 易經, 大過 Da Guo — count: 9
• 偏枯 (偏枯) 偏枯 — Guanzi 管子, 入國第五十四 Chapter 54: Entering the State — count: 4
• 枯鱼 (枯魚) 枯魚之膳 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 外儲說左下第三十三 Chapter 33: A Collection of Sayings IV — count: 3
• 嘘枯 (噓枯) 噓枯吹生 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七十 鄭孔荀列傳 Volume 70: Biographies of Zheng, Kong, Xun — count: 3
• 枯死 (枯死) 枯死於野 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷八 尊賢 Chapter 8: Respecting Talent — count: 3
• 枯吹 (枯吹) 噓枯吹生 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七十 鄭孔荀列傳 Volume 70: Biographies of Zheng, Kong, Xun — count: 3
• 中枯 (中枯) 郡中枯旱三年 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷五 貴德 Chapter 5: Valuing Virtue — count: 3
• 槁枯 (槁枯) 彼則槁枯而遠棄 — New Discussions 新語, 卷下　資質第七　至德第八　懷慮第九　本行第十　明誡第十一　思務第十二　Scroll 2 — count: 3