燥 means dry and is a JLPT N2 kanji. It has 17 strokes and uses the fire radical (火).
Stroke order · 17 strokes
On'yomi (音読み)
ソウ
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
はしゃ(ぐ)
Radical
火 · fire
Strokes
17
How to remember 燥
The heat of fire (火) has boiled all the moisture out of the wood (木) — dry. 乾燥 (dryness) — there's no getting through Japan's dry (乾燥) winter without lotion.