干旱 (gānhàn) means Arid (dry). Below are 5 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
这一带常年 干旱 ，缺水严重。
Zhè yídài chángnián gānhàn, quē shuǐ yánzhòng.
This area is dry all year round and badly short of water.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 干旱
今年春天 干旱 ，庄稼长得不好。
Jīnnián chūntiān gānhàn, zhuāngjia zhǎng de bù hǎo.
It was dry this spring and the crops did not grow well.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 干旱
干旱 时灌溉尤其重要。
Gānhàn shí guàngài yóuqí zhòngyào.
Irrigation matters especially in times of drought.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 灌溉
干旱 加剧了粮食短缺。
Gānhàn jiājù le liángshi duǎnquē.
The drought aggravated the grain shortage.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 加剧
连年 干旱 让农民很发愁。
Liánnián gānhàn ràng nóngmín hěn fāchóu.
Successive years of drought have left the farmers worried.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 连年
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Questions about 干旱
How is 干旱 used in a sentence?
This page shows 5 sentences using 干旱 (gānhàn, "Arid (dry)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 干旱 an HSK word?
Yes — 干旱 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 干旱?
The dictionary page for 干旱 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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