枯

Meaning

枯 centers on the loss of vitality and moisture: plants withering, things drying up, or life fading away. The sense of being seasoned extends this idea to something dried and matured, like aged wood or seasoned timber.

• 枯渇こかつ

  drying up; running dry

• 枯れるかれる
  N3

  to wither (of a plant); to be blasted; to die

• 枯葉かれは
  N1

  dead leaf; dry leaves

• 枯らすからす

  to let dry; to kill (vegetation); to season (lumber)

• 枯れ木かれき
  N1

  dead tree; withered tree

• 木枯らしこがらし
  N1

  cold wintry wind

• 枯山水かれさんすい

  traditional (Chinese or Japanese) dry landscape garden

• 枯死こし

  withering; dying

• 栄枯盛衰えいこせいすい

  ups and downs of life; vicissitudes of fortune

• 枯れ草かれくさ

  dry grass; dead grass; hay; withered grass

• 栄枯えいこ

  vicissitudes; ups and downs

• 立ち枯れたちがれ

  blighted; withered

• 枯れ枝かれえだ

  dead branch (or twig, etc.); withered branch

• クリ胴枯病クリどうがれびょう

  chestnut blight; chestnut canker

• ニレ立ち枯れ病ニレたちがれびょう

  Dutch elm disease

• 一将功成って万骨枯るいっしょうこうなってばんこつかる

  thousands die to make one hero; one general reaches glory, ten thousand bones are left to dry

• 一将功成りて万骨枯るいっしょうこうなりてばんこつかる

  thousands die to make one hero; one general reaches glory, ten thousand bones are left to dry

• 上枯れるうわがれる

  to die at the top

• 乾枯かんこ

  completely drying up

• 冬枯れふゆがれ

  withering of vegetation in winter; winter decay

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