旱 (hàn) means Dry (drought). Below are 6 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
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
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
这个地区遭受了严重的 旱 灾。
Zhège dìqū zāoshòu le yánzhòng de hànzāi.
This region suffered a severe drought.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 遭受
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
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Words that contain 旱
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Questions about 旱
How is 旱 used in a sentence?
This page shows 6 sentences using 旱 (hàn, "Dry (drought)"), 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.
Why do some sentences show 旱 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 旱 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 旱?
The dictionary page for 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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