乾く
かわく · kawaku · JLPT N4 · verb-godan
to get dry
🏜️ sounds like: a cow, a coo — the thirsty cow croaks when all gets dry
乾 is the kanji for dry, also read kan in 乾杯 (kanpai = dry the cup). The く ending marks it as an intransitive verb: things get dry by themselves. Its transitive partner is 乾かす (kawakasu), to dry something.