旱

旱 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 日一十 (AMJ), four-corner 6040₁, composition ⿱日干)

• 哻 垾 娨 悍 捍 猂 晘 桿 焊 䏷 皔 睅 稈 䛞 貋 銲 駻 趕
• 㪋 䳚 𣊋 䓍 筸

• 亁

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 490, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13752
• Dae Jaweon: page 851, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1486, character 8
• Unihan data for U+65F1

From the same Proto-Sino-Tibetan root as 乾 (OC *kaːn, *ɡran, “dry”) (Schuessler, 2007).

旱

1. drought; dry spell; aridness

   防旱  ―  fánghàn  ―  to take precautions against drought

   • 旱既大甚，蘊隆蟲蟲。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     旱既大甚，蕴隆虫虫。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Hàn jì dà shèn, yùnlóng chóngchóng. [Pinyin]

     The drought is excessive;
     Its fervours become more and more tormenting.

2. drought-stricken

   莊稼旱了／庄稼旱了  ―  zhuāngjià hàn le  ―  the crops are drought-stricken

   • 無限旱苗枯欲盡，悠悠閒處作奇峰。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     无限旱苗枯欲尽，悠悠闲处作奇峰。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 9th century, 來鵠, 雲

     Wúxiàn hàn miáo kū yù jìn, yōuyōu xián chù zuò qí fēng. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. (attributive) unrelated to water

   旱煙／旱烟  ―  hànyān  ―  tobacco (smoked in a long-stemmed Chinese pipe)

   旱傘／旱伞  ―  hànsǎn  ―  parasol

4. on land or not in a paddy field

   旱稻  ―  hàndào  ―  dry rice

   旱船  ―  hànchuán  ―  Boat-shaped prop used in folk festivals; boat-shaped structure next to a garden pond^[1]

5. land route

   起旱  ―  qǐhàn  ―  take an overland route

• (drought):

• (antonym(s) of “dry”): 澇／涝 (lào)

• “旱”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• On (unclassified): かん (kan)
• Kun: ひでり (hideri, 旱)

• 旱魃

/hi₁deri/: *pideri > ɸideri > çideri. The nominalization of the verb 日照る (hideru).

• 日照り

• IPA^(key): [çideri]

旱(ひでり) • (hideri) 

1. a sunny day
2. a lack of water due to continuous sunny weather; a drought

From Middle Chinese 旱 (MC hanX).

• IPA^(key): [kã̠ɴ]

旱(かん) • (kan) 

1. drought; dry weather

From Middle Chinese 旱 (MC hanX).

Recorded as Middle Korean ᅘᅡᆫ〯 (Yale: hhan) in Dongguk Jeongun (東國正韻 / 동국정운), 1448.

Recorded as Middle Korean 한〯 (hǎn) (Yale: han) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

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旱 (eumhun 가물 한 (gamul han))

1. hanja form^? of 한 (“drought”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

旱: Hán Nôm readings: hạn, khan

旱

1. chữ Hán form of hạn
   1. drought; dryness

      Synonym: 旱暵 (hạn hán)

   2. (occult) a period of bad luck

      解旱 (giải hạn) ― to neutralize unlucky supernatural forces that's haunting you