astringent

Original meaning: 

unsmooth

Simplified form of . Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "unsmooth". The meaning later shifted to "rough" and "astringent".

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

歰 sound,meaning,simplified component

  Sound Meaning Simplified component

  

unsmooth

Evolution

涩 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
涩 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

astringent; harsh; uneven, rough; tart; acerbity; unsmooth; rough (surface); hard to understand; obscure

() 

old variant of |[sè]

Most common words with 涩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

tart

苦涩

pained

羞涩

shy

晦涩

cryptic

干涩

hoarse (voice)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.6659% of movies

3166th most common character in movies

2836th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

Unicode

U+6DA9


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