bathe

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

木 sound component

  Sound component

  

tree

Evolution

沐 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
沐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
沐 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
沐 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

bathe, cleanse, wash, shampoo; to bathe; to cleanse; to receive; to be given

Most common words with 沐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

沐浴

to bathe

to bathe

栉风沐雨

fig. to work in the open regardless of the weather

沐猴而冠

lit. a monkey wearing a hat (idiom)

沐川县

Muchuan county in Leshan 樂山|乐山[Lè​shān], Sichuan

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.8581% of movies

3110th most common character in movies

3464th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+6C90

Shuowen

“沐,濯髮也。从水,木聲。”


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