渇

Meaning

渇 centers on a severe lack of water: being thirsty, dried up, or parched. The meanings all describe a state of intense dryness or the need for moisture.

• 枯渇こかつ

  drying up; running dry

• 渇くかわく
  N2

  to be thirsty; to feel thirsty

• 渇きかわき

  thirst

• 渇望かつぼう

  craving; longing; thirsting

• 渇水かっすい

  water shortage

• 渇かつ

  thirst

• 喉が渇くのどがかわく
  N5

  to be thirsty

• 口渇こうかつ

  thirst; dry mouth; -dipsia

• 止渇しかつ

  cessation of coughing

• 消渇しょうかち

  diabetes (in traditional Chinese medicine)

• 渇しても盗泉の水を飲まずかっしてもとうせんのみずをのまず

  better starve than fatten on ill-gotten wealth; don't lower yourself to unjust acts, no matter how desperate you are; refraining to drink from a spring called Robber's Spring even if thirsty

• 渇すかっす

  to be thirsty; to be dry

• 渇するかっする

  to be thirsty; to be dry

• 渇に臨みて井を掘るかつにのぞみていをほる

  to fail to make timely preparations; to not dig a well until one is thirsty

• 渇に臨みて井を穿つかつにのぞみてせいをうがつ

  to fail to make timely preparations; to not dig a well until one is thirsty

• 渇を癒やすかつをいやす

  to quench one's thirst

• 渇仰かつごう

  adoration; reverence; esteem

• 渇愛かつあい

  thirst; craving; desire

• 渇望者かつぼうしゃ

  desiring person; luster

• 渇死かっし

  dying of thirst

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