drought
Drought. 长时间的严重干旱 = prolonged severe drought.
干旱 appears in 3 Fluentide podcast episodes at natural native speed — each with the full Chinese script, pinyin, and line-by-line English translation.
干旱 is written with 10 strokes (干: 3, 旱: 7). Tap replay to watch each character drawn again.
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