| 枯 | [ kū ] dried up |
| 枯乾 | [ kū gān ] withered |
| 枯寂 | [ kū jì ] dull and lonely |
| 枯木 | [ kū mù ] dead tree |
| 枯木逢春 | [ kū mù féng chūn ] lit. the spring comes upon a withered tree (idiom), fig. to get a new lease on life, to be revived, (of a difficult situation) to suddenly improve |
| 枯朽 | [ kū xiǔ ] withered and rotten |
| 枯槁 | [ kū gaǒ ] withered, haggard, languid, without energy |
| 枯水 | [ kū shuǐ ] scarce water, low water level |
| 枯水期 | [ kū shuǐ qī ] period of low water level (winter in north China) |
| 枯燥 | [ kū zaò ] dry and dull, uninteresting, dry-as-dust |
| 枯燥無味 | [ kū zaò wú weì ] tedious, dreary |
| 枯竭 | [ kū jié ] used up, dried up, exhausted (of resources) |
| 枯茗 | [ kū míng ] cumin (loanword) |
| 枯草 | [ kū caǒ ] withered grass, dry grass |
| 枯草桿菌 | [ kū caǒ gǎn jūn ] bacillus subtilis |
| 枯草熱 | [ kū caǒ rè ] hay fever |
| 枯萎 | [ kū weǐ ] to wilt, to wither, wilted, withered, drained, enervated, exhausted |
| 枯萎病 | [ kū weǐ bìng ] blight |
| 枯葉 | [ kū yè ] dead leaf, withered leaf |
| 枯葉劑 | [ kū yè jì ] Agent Orange (herbicide) |
| ⇒ 乾枯 | [ gān kū ] withered, dried up |
| ⇒ 塚中枯骨 | [ zhǒng zhōng kū gǔ ] dried bones in burial mound (idiom); dead and buried |
| ⇒ 巴枯寧主義 | [ bā kū níng zhǔ yì ] Bakuninism, a 19th century socialist theory |
| ⇒ 搜索枯腸 | [ soū suǒ kū cháng ] to rack one's brains (for apt wording etc) (idiom) |
| ⇒ 海枯石爛 | [ haǐ kū shí làn ] lit. when the seas run dry and the stones go soft (idiom), fig. forever, until the end of time |
| ⇒ 百草枯 | [ baǐ caǒ kū ] paraquat |
| ⇒ 神枯 | [ shén kū ] spiritual desolation |
| ⇒ 黑枯茗 | [ heī kū míng ] black cumin, Nigella sativa |