Chinese Character Wiki
湿

shī

wet

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 显 represents the sound. Simplified form of 濕.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

显 sound component

显  Sound component

xiǎn

  

evident, make visible, clear

Evolution

湿 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
湿 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
湿 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
湿 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

湿 (濕) 

shī

wet, moist, humid, damp; an illness; moist; wet

湿 (溼) 

shī

variant of 濕|湿[shī]

Most common words with 湿
Freq.
Word
Meaning

湿

moist

潮湿

damp

湿地

wetland

湿度

humidity level

湿润

moist

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 14.4001% of movies

1797th most common character in movies

1743rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

濕

Unicode

U+6E7F


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