干渴 (乾渴)
gān kě
Pinyin
Definition
干渴 (乾渴)
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- parched
- dry mouth
Character Decomposition
Idioms (9)
充饥止渴
- 1 to allay one's hunger and slake one's thirst (idiom)
如饥似渴
- 1 to hunger for sth (idiom); eagerly
- 2 to long for sth
扭转乾坤
- 1 lit. to upend heaven and earth (idiom)
- 2 fig. to change the course of events
- 3 to turn things around
旋乾转坤
- 1 lit. overturning heaven and earth (idiom); earth-shattering
- 2 a radical change
望梅止渴
- 1 lit. to quench one's thirst by thinking of plums (idiom)
- 2 fig. to console oneself with illusions